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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 ...
The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...
The most commonly used world map could soon get a revamp to show the true scale of the African continent. The African Union ...
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 ...
The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century ...
Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?
The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...
Criticism of the Mercator map is not new, but the 'Correct The Map' campaign – led by advocacy groups Africa No Filter and ...
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...