W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...

(MENAFN- Live Mint) The African Union has joined a growing campaign to challenge centuries of cartographic distortion that has long diminished Africa's true scale on world maps. The bloc of 55 nations ...

Mercator projection maps, which many people think of when they hear the word 'map,' have the characteristic that the closer they get to the North Pole or South Pole, the larger they appear than they ...

At first glance, Greenland appears almost as large as the entire continent of Africa on many world maps. In reality, Greenland is about 14 times smaller than Africa.

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 ...

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 ...

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of the continent and its size. Mercator projection Equal Earth projection ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...

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On most world maps, Africa looks modest—smaller than Greenland. In reality? It’s 14 times bigger. This cartographic lie has shaped minds for centuries. The Mercator map wasn’t just a sailor’s tool—it ...

The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it’s not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...