UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
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The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents The UN General Assembly has voted to replace the traditional world map with one that more accurately reflects the size of Africa.
墨卡托投影是全球广泛使用的地图，但不能准确地描绘国家和大陆的大小 联合国大会投票决定用更准确反映非洲面积的地图取代传统的世界地图。
The "Correct the Map" resolution, sponsored by Togo and backed by African Union (AU) members, passed with the support of 164 nations, including France and the UK.
由多哥发起、非盟成员国支持的“修正地图”决议在法国、英国等164个国家的支持下获得通过。
The United States was the only nation to vote against it - and there were six abstentions. The UN vote is non-binding but will see changes to the maps used by institutions around the world.
美国是唯一投反对票的国家，有六票弃权。 联合国的投票不具有约束力，但世界各地机构使用的地图将会发生变化。
The Mercator map, which has been in common use since the 16th Century, has come in for criticism as it shows Africa as similar in size to Greenland, even though it is 14 times larger.
自 16 世纪以来一直广泛使用的墨卡托地图受到了批评，因为它显示非洲的面积与格陵兰岛相似，尽管非洲的面积是格陵兰岛的 14 倍。
Critics say this leads to the development needs and potential for countries near the equator to be minimised.
批评人士称，这导致赤道附近国家的发展需求和潜力被最小化。
US admits 'unfortunate error' after mislabelling countries on map of Africa The Mercator map was designed in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator to help European explorers navigate across the world.
美国在非洲地图上错误标记国家后承认“不幸的错误” 墨卡托地图由佛兰德斯制图师 Gerardus Mercator 于 1569 年设计，旨在帮助欧洲探险家在世界各地导航。
The distortion of his map is a result of the fact that it is impossible to accurately represent the surface of a globe on a two-dimensional chart.
他的地图失真是因为不可能在二维图表上准确地表示地球表面。
Whenever a map of the world is drawn, compromises need to be made.
每当绘制世界地图时，都需要做出妥协。
The Mercator map shows the curvature of the Earth by making countries near the equator seem smaller than they are, with countries nearer the poles appearing bigger.
墨卡托地图通过使赤道附近的国家看起来比实际小，而靠近两极的国家看起来更大来显示地球的曲率。
In an effort to correct this, a team of cartographers in 2018 created an equal area map they called the Equal Earth projection.
为了纠正这个问题，一组制图师于 2018 年创建了一张等面积地图，他们称之为“等地球投影”。
In February, the AU's 54 member states adopted it, and said it "more accurately represents the sizes of all continents, particularly Africa".
今年 2 月，非盟 54 个成员国通过了该标准，并表示它“更准确地代表了各大洲的面积，特别是非洲”。
Online campaign group #CorrectTheMap said: "You could fit the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico and much of Europe into Africa and still have land to spare."
在线活动组织#CorrectTheMap 表示：“你可以将美国、中国、印度、日本、墨西哥和欧洲大部分地区纳入非洲，但仍然有剩余土地。”
Ahead of Friday's vote, Togolese Foreign Minister Robert Dussey told the Reuters news agency: "A fair world begins with a fair map."
在周五投票之前，多哥外交部长罗伯特·杜西告诉路透社：“公平的世界始于公平的地图。”
Earlier he had told a UN briefing: "A map is never neutral.
早些时候，他在联合国简报会上表示：“地图从来都不是中立的。
It shapes perceptions, influences how the place of peoples and continents in the world is understood."
它塑造了人们的看法，影响了人们对世界上各民族和各大洲的地位的理解。”
He had the backing of the French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, who said his ministry was going to stop using the Mercator map, external. "Changing the map obviously doesn't change the world.
他得到了法国外交部长让-诺埃尔·巴罗的支持，后者表示法国外交部将停止在外部使用墨卡托地图。 “改变地图显然不会改变世界。
But correcting a representation that distorts it is already an act of truth," he said.
但纠正扭曲的表述已经是一种事实行为，”他说。
But Yaryna Ferencevych, a US representative at the UN, said the resolution mocked the work and purpose of the UN General Assembly, external. "Instead of focusing on genuine problems of international peace, prosperity, or good relations, this body is debating map projects from the 16th Century, and their role in promoting reparations and 'cognitive justice'," she said.
但美国驻联合国代表亚里娜·费伦斯维奇表示，该决议对外嘲笑了联合国大会的工作和宗旨。 她说：“这个机构没有关注国际和平、繁荣或良好关系的真正问题，而是讨论 16 世纪的地图项目及其在促进赔偿和‘认知正义’方面的作用。”
In March, the US was also critical when a resolution was adopted declaring the transatlantic slave trade "the gravest crime against humanity".
今年三月，美国也提出批评，通过了一项决议，宣布跨大西洋奴隶贸易是“最严重的危害人类罪”。
"Africa's misrepresentation on world maps is not just a cartographic error - it's a narrative issue," Lerato Mogoatlhe from Africa No Filter, one of the groups behind the campaign to ditch the Mercator map, told the BBC.
“非洲在世界地图上的歪曲不仅仅是一个制图错误，而是一个叙事问题，”来自“非洲无过滤器”（Africa No Filter）的莱拉托·莫戈阿特尔（Lerato Mogoatlhe）告诉英国广播公司（BBC），该组织是抛弃墨卡托地图运动的组织之一。
It was part of efforts to stop the "world's longest misinformation and disinformation" about Africa, she said.
她说，这是制止有关非洲的“世界上最长的错误信息和虚假信息”的努力的一部分。
For Kenyan geographer Kioko Muendo, the Mercator map has implicitly downplayed the African continent's vast resources, population and investment opportunities.
对于肯尼亚地理学家 Kioko Muendo 来说，墨卡托地图含蓄地淡化了非洲大陆丰富的资源、人口和投资机会。
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他告诉英国广播公司：“地图不仅仅是旅行者的指南，它们还塑造了人们对地区政治和经济的看法。” “人群高喊我们偷了某人的生殖器”——社交媒体上传播致命谣言 一名牧羊人幸运得到的 200 美元金块是否引发了肯尼亚西部的淘金热？ “这颗星属于非洲”——Angélique Kidjo 谈好莱坞星光大道的历史 “如果你开始逃跑，他们就会开枪射杀你”——尼日利亚日益严重的绑架危机 什么是埃博拉病毒？为什么阻止最新的疫情如此困难？
Go to BBCAfrica.com, external for more news from the African continent.
请访问 BBCAfrica.com，了解来自非洲大陆的更多外部新闻。
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