India Today on MSN: What's wrong with Africa's map? Should it concern India too?
Yahoo: ‘US, China, India can all fit into Africa’: On a quest to fix the world map
‘US, China, India can all fit into Africa’: On a quest to fix the world map
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 ...
MSN: Why does Greenland look bigger than Africa — and India smaller? The Mercator Projection explained
The African Union has joined a growing campaign to challenge centuries of cartographic distortion that has long diminished Africa’s true scale on world maps. The bloc of 55 nations recently endorsed ...
Why does Greenland look bigger than Africa — and India smaller? The Mercator Projection explained
The Washington Post: Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map
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 ...
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 ...