The United Nations General Assembly has approved the 'Correct the Map' resolution by a margin of 164 to 1. The move aims to shift away from the 16th-century Mercator projection, which causes significant distortion, in favor of equal-area map projections. While India supported the resolution, it emphasized that the decision should remain technologically neutral. India argued against backing any single projection, such as Equal Earth, and suggested that nations should be free to select the mapping methods that best fit their individual requirements.

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