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The headlines you saw about the UN's recent vote on #maps and #Africa...were mostly wrong. 😬We dig into what actually happened in our new #geography #factcheck article:
polgeonow.com/2026/09/un-new…
So bizarre to see @nytimesworld still referring to #Yemen's Houthi government as a "militia". No one has to like it, but serious people understand the #Houthis are operating a rival national govt and army, and a much stronger one than Yemen's internationally-recognized government
Honored for our article on the UN map vote to be shared by one the Equal Earth projection's own inventors!
#worldmap #unitednations #cartography #mapping
Maybe you also heard that only the US voted "no" on the UN's #maps resolution, and #Ukraine abstained. But we doubt you got the whole truth about why. And what about the other 5 abstainers? It's all here:
polgeonow.com/2026/09/un-new…
#UnitedNations #Crimea #geopolitics
And in our companion article, some surprising details of what actually happened at the UN debate on the map vote:
polgeonow.com/2026/09/un-new…
The @CorrectTheMap campaign thinks #Africa is the center of the world? 😆
#cartography #geography #GIS #Mercator #map #worldmap #maps #mapping
ALT Screenshot of text: 6. How can I spot a misleading map? Look out for these clues: Does Greenland look as big as Africa? That’s a red flag. Is Africa near the center of the map, or pushed to the side? Are countries near the equator unusually small?
Some news for cartographers, from the highly-sensationalized @CorrectTheMap campaign
(Their mission to get rid of #Mercator-projection illustrative world maps is a good fight, but a lot of their rhetoric is very ill-informed/misleading.)
#cartography #geography #GIS #worldmap
Always interesting to be reminded that UN peacekeepers are soldiers from specific, faraway countries. Here's a recent UN map of the (former) #GolanHeights buffer zone in #Syria, now mostly held by #Israel, with #UNDOF peacekeepers mostly relegated to observation and liaising.
Hopefully this puts a final end to the misguided attempts to nickname the new alliance the "Sunni Axis".
We now know the answer to the question I asked in April 👇: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan invited Iran to join newly-established Mecca defense pact. jpost.com/middle-east/iran-n…
An impressively moving and incisive reflection on the meaning of borders and countries, with implications far beyond India and Pakistan.
#borders #borderstudies #geography #geopolitics #sovereignty #independence
The tragedy is not just that India and Pakistan’s borders were drawn badly, but that they were defended well.
Superb as always by veteran journalist @shyamtekwani in @newlinesmag, on the 79th anniversary of Partition. newlinesmag.com/essays/the-s…
Great piece of reporting on the events in Ceuta from the perspective of asylum seekers as well as the residents of the city (for once).
#geography #geopolitics #Spain #Morocco #Ceuta #migration #Mediterranean #FortressEurope #borderexternalization #borderlands #borders
For thousands of migrants who crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, reaching Spanish territory was supposed to mean reaching Europe. Instead, many have found themselves stranded on its edge. | @OkbaMohamad and @javierjenningsm report from Ceuta.
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Our full 2026 control map report for #Somalia is still a ways out, but subscribers can now see an April 15 version of the map:
polgeonow.com/2026/07/somali…
#HornOfAfrica #conflicttracking #conflictmapping #map #mapping #cartography #Somaliland #Khaatumo #Puntland #AlShabaab #AlQaeda
As usual with official country name changes at the UN, it's not just for English - changes are made in most of the organization's other official languages too.
#geography #languages #linguistics #names #toponymy
📍Nauru, considerado el tercer país más pequeño del mundo, modificó este lunes su nombre a República de Naoero.
De acuerdo con su presidente David Adeang, esto se debe a que el nuevo nombre cuenta con mayor consonancia con la ortografía y la pronunciación en el idioma nacional.
elhorizonte.mx/internacional…
More details in our thread for geography nerds: xitter.cf/PolGeoNow/status/20845…
(1/6) Republic of #Nauru govt announces that change of country name to #Naoero is complete, after deciding no #referendum necessary after May 2026 constitutional amendment.
rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/83634…
#geography #geopolitics #oceania #toponymy #namechange #microstates #micronesia
