For more than four centuries, a cartographic choice made in 1569 shaped how the world imagined itself — rendering Africa smaller than Greenland in the collective mind, despite being a continent of nearly 12 million square miles. This month, the United Nations General Assembly voted to formally endorse a corrected map projection, acknowledging that the tools we use to represent the world are never neutral. The resolution is symbolic in form but consequential in meaning: the world's foremost international body has declared that accuracy must outweigh tradition, and that what we see on a map shap