Australia is set to look noticeably larger on world maps after the United Nations General Assembly voted to ditch centuries of cartographic distortion in favour of a new global map projection.
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Australia gets a new shape in world map - as debate erupts over controversial changes
The UN General Assembly voted to back the Equal Earth cartographic projection in a bid to provide what it described as a 'more accurate representation' of the world's land masses.
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