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US votes against an ‘Equal World Map’ at the United Nations: Read how the old world map misrepresented the sizes of continents

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To address the distortion in the sizes of continents, a team of cartographers created the Equal Earth projection in 2018.
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WHO distorts Indian map, separates Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, from rest of the country

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The two newly created Union Territories of India have been marked in grey colour, separate from India which appears in navy blue.
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China destroys 30,000 world maps showing Arunachal Pradesh as part of India

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India and China have so far held 21 rounds of talks to resolve the border dispute covering 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC)

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