KTVU: 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
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 ...
FOX 10 Phoenix: Africa is much bigger than most maps show, and a new campaign wants that fixed
The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...
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