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
The New York Times: Africa Is Big, and It Wants the World’s Maps to Show It
Africa Is Big, and It Wants the World’s Maps to Show It
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 ...
MSN: African Union urges replacement of outdated world map that shrinks Africa
The African Union has endorsed a campaign urging governments and international bodies to abandon the 16th-century Mercator map, which distorts Africa’s true size, in favour of more accurate ...
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 ...