MyJoyOnline: Togo petitions UN to adopt world map showing Africa’s true size
Togo is spearheading a diplomatic movement to overhaul how the world views the African continent. The West African nation plans to ask United Nations member states to adopt a world map that more ...
Black Enterprise: This African Nation Says Its Time For World Map To Reflect The Continent’s True Size
The government of Togo has formally petitioned the United Nations to adopt a world map that accurately represents the true land area of Africa.
This African Nation Says Its Time For World Map To Reflect The Continent’s True Size
Reuters on MSN: Togo to ask UN member states to use map showing Africa's true size
By Noel Kokou Tadegnon and Catarina Demony LOME, April 14 (Reuters) - Togo will ask United Nations member states to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the true size of Africa and ditch ...
Togo to ask UN member states to use map showing Africa's true size
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said ...
For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish Africa’s size and, along with it, its place in the world. But a new campaign is ...
India Today on MSN: What's wrong with Africa's map? Should it concern India too?
The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, Africa appears smaller than it is. In a bid to depict the continent's relative ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from ...