India has supported a UN resolution aimed at adopting a new world map, a move intended to promote more equitable global representation and address historical geographic inaccuracies that disadvantage developing countries. The resolution, which does not carry legal weight, was approved with a vote of 164 to 1. The current Mercator projection typically distorts landmasses near the poles, causing India to look significantly smaller than regions like Europe or Russia.
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