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 ...
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
The Conversation: World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters
The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...
World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters
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