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A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...
African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...
On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But ...
Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...
The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical ...
Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...
Equinoxes occur twice a year, with night and day being almost the exact same length all across the world. The next equinox is ...
The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...
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 ...
A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of ...
NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...