Since the 16th century, the world has been drawn in a way that quietly diminished an entire continent. On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly voted 164 to 1 to endorse the Equal Earth projection, a map that renders the world's landmasses in their true proportions — restoring Africa to its actual scale, fourteen times larger than Greenland. Sponsored by Togo and backed by the African Union, the resolution does not compel change, but it places the weight of global consensus behind a simple, consequential idea: that how we picture the world shapes how we understand it, and that accuracy i