The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a world map that depicts the size of Africa more accurately than the map most commonly used now.

The UN General Assembly adopted the “Correct the Map” resolution with 164 votes in favour, one against and six abstentions, backing wider use of equal-area projections such as “Equal Earth” to address...

The resolution was backed by 164 countries while the United States voted against it and six other states abstained.