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Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...
A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...
The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...
African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...
The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical ...
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The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...
Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...
The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays ...
Equinoxes occur twice a year, with night and day being almost the exact same length all across the world. The next equinox is ...
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...