00:00A shrunk in Africa and Greenland and Siberia stretched out of all proportion
00:04on French diplomatic maps that's now a thing of the past.
00:09French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barraud has officially announced that his ministry
00:13is abandoning the so-called Mercator projection, in favor of a cartographic representation
00:18that more accurately reflects the true size of the continents, Africa in particular.
00:24Paris has opted for the Eckert IV projection, which is similar to the Equal Earth projection
00:29in line with the Correct the Map resolution, sponsored by Togo and the African Union,
00:34which was approved at the United Nations on Friday.
00:37The change won't happen overnight.
00:39The process is already underway, Euronews has learned from diplomatic sources.
00:44As early as 2021, the ministry began scaling back its use of the Mercator projection
00:50in order to provide what it says is a more accurate geographical representation of the world.
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