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On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But ...
A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...
African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...
Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...
The African Union's recent support for alternatives to the Mercator projection challenges historical cartographic distortions that misrepresent Africa's size.
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A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of the continent and its size.
The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays ...