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
Business and Financial Times on MSN: African Union adopts historic decision to restore accurate representation of Africa in global maps and educational systems
African Union adopts historic decision to restore accurate representation of Africa in global maps and educational systems
NPR: African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...
African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
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 ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle: In pre-colonial Africa, political decentralization was by design
fox6now: 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