FOX 10 Phoenix: Africa is much bigger than most maps show, and a new campaign wants that fixed
African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...
Africa is much bigger than most maps show, and a new campaign wants that fixed
MSN: The World Map You’ve Known Forever Is Wrong—and Africa Wants to Redraw It
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...
The World Map You’ve Known Forever Is Wrong—and Africa Wants to Redraw It
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
The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...
FOX8 Cleveland: Campaigners want to change world map to show Africa is bigger
CNN: African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent’s true 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 Africa ...
Hartford Courant: Campaigners want to change the world map to show Africa is bigger
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in ...
Campaigners want to change the world map to show Africa is bigger
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 ...
Los Angeles Times: 14 Greenlands fit inside Africa: Campaign gains global momentum for map accuracy
DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...
14 Greenlands fit inside Africa: Campaign gains global momentum for map accuracy