African Union has proposed a resolution to UN to replace the Mercator map with Equal Earth map, which represents countries’ sizes more accurately.
The resolution passed with 164 in favor, 1 against, 6 abstained.
One of the countries that abstained is Ukraine, as the proposed map had Crimea marked as neutral territory.
IMO marking Crimea as neutral makes zero sense in what otherwise would be a great map suggestion, and it really pisses me off.
Either show the actual control status on the ground: which would mean 80% of Ukraine marked as Ukrainian, 20% of Ukraine as Russian.
Or show 100% of it all as Ukrainian, as it’s agreed upon internationally.
Showing entire Ukraine as Ukrainian except for “neutral” Crimea doesn’t match reality neither legally nor militarily.
Such a map has a lifetime of barely 24h.
I don’t know about that. The frontline has barely moved in the last 2-3 years or so.
Especially if we zoom out and look at the world map, small towns changing hands wouldn’t be visible on a map of that scale