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  "id": 6112759,
  "title": "Africa: UN Adopts 'Equal Earth' Map, Corrects Distortion of Africa's Size",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/africa-un-adopts-equal-earth-map-corrects-distortion-of-africas-size",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-07T06:48:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica",
    "slug": "allafrica",
    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202609070108.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "[This Day] The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the weekend adopted a resolution promoting the wider use of equal-area world maps, including the Equal Earth projection, in a move aimed at addressing long-standing distortions in the representation of Africa and other equatorial regions.",
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        "title": "UN Adopts ‘Equal Earth’ Map, Corrects Distortion of Africa’s Size",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/un-adopts-equal-earth-map-corrects-distortion-of-africas-size",
        "published": "2026-09-07T02:49:25.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}