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.




Isn’t Dymaxion map projection even more accurate than Waterman-butterfly?
Yes but it wasn’t recently voted on in the UN (that I know of). Plus the dymaxian projection isn’t as satisfying to look at