The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...
The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...
There are growing calls from African nations for the international community to adopt maps that accurately reflect the true size of the African ...
The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...
The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our ...
New analysis of street-level data across sub-Saharan Africa shows how access to infrastructure dramatically improves the ...
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