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African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...
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Global News - Inquirer.net on MSNCampaigners want world map to show Africa really bigger
On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But ...
A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...
African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...
Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...
Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...
The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long criticised for shrinking Africa’s true size. Advocates argue that adopting the Equal ...
Xi Jinping, China’s leader, made a tightly choreographed trip to Lhasa yesterday, his first since 2021 to the capital of Tibet. The visit reflected the Chinese leadership’s concern with redoubling ...
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...
The African Union's recent support for alternatives to the Mercator projection challenges historical cartographic distortions that misrepresent Africa's size.
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