Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 11:35am on 06 Sep 2026,Sunday India
India has backed a United Nations resolution promoting equal-area world maps. The resolution aims to show the true relative sizes of countries and continents. However, India said its support does not approve any specific map or depiction of national borders. The Ministry of External Affairs said Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh must be shown according to India’s official map. India warned that any inaccurate or misleading depiction of its territory was unacceptable. The UN resolution is non-binding. It encourages the use of maps that show land areas more accurately but does not ban the widely used Mercator projection.
