India supports UN resolution promoting equality in global governance
- India voted in favour of a UN resolution promoting equal-area world map projections.
- The resolution aims to represent the relative size of continents more accurately on world maps.
- It seeks to address distortions in the widely used Mercator projection, especially for Africa and other regions.
- India clarified that its vote does not endorse any specific map or alter its territorial boundaries.
Source: newsonair.gov.in
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