Can you guess the real size of each country on the new world map?
Left-leaning outlets (Guardian, Le Monde, Al Jazeera, Washington Post) similarly report the vote and US objection, but Al Jazeera and Washington Post more explicitly frame the Mercator map's origins in European colonial exploration and connect the resolution to correcting a colonial-era distortion. Al Jazeera provides extensive interactive/explanatory content on the map's history and the scale of distortion, and highlights the US calling the resolution a 'radical ideological project.'
