The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it seem smaller. The Mercator map created in the 16th century enlarges ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

Crisscrossed by rail-straight lines that correspond to constant compass bearings, the Mercator projection was ideal for navigation in the age of sail, at the expense of showing the actual size of ...

The African Union says the Mercator projection distorts Africa’s size and identity—and it’s pushing a new map to set the record straight.

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

The continent of Africa looks different depending on which calculations you choose to make a three dimensional reality into a ...

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