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Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...
Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...
African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...
A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a modern map that shows Africa’s true size.
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...
The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...
On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But ...
Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...
A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of ...
The distortion has even influenced political perceptions of Trump, who once eyed buying Greenland, misled by maps showing it ...
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