This phenomenon can be attributed to the Mercator projection, a map most commonly seen hanging in classrooms and in text books which was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the world.

Despite these immense differences in what is reality for many country’s true sizes, Mercator’s map is widely used across the world and is seen in many classrooms still today. All maps distort ...

Children in Boston’s public schools were introduced to a new world map last week, offering a comparison to the traditional Mercator projection ... and position of the terrain on the Earth ...

The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection ... an eponymous equation to quantify the degree of distortion that a world map experienced. Called ...

In 1973, Arno Peters, a German filmmaker and journalist, called a press conference to denounce the widely accepted map of the world known as the “Mercator Map.” Peters’s position was that ...

In 1973, Arno Peters, a German filmmaker and journalist, called a press conference to denounce the widely accepted map of the world known as the “Mercator Map.” Peters’s position was that ...

This map shows that in reality, Brazil is almost as large as Canada, even though it appears to be much smaller on Mercator maps. Thinking about the world in two-dimensions also distorts our ideas ...

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Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is ... cartographers (map makers) to show all or part of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat surface. The Mercator map projection ...

The 28-year-old is leading an African-led campaign to get more of global institutions and schools to immediately stop using the Mercator Map projection – the most common version of the world map ...