World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...
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Historic maps of Africa collection

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from ...
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African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is... The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the ...
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Africa Is 7 Times Bigger Than Europe. The World Map We're Used To Is A Lie

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...
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Africa's New Map

There is a new scramble for Africa. Roads, railways and pipelines are being built or envisioned into the interior of central Africa from multiple directions. Africa's geographic tragedy through the ...
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African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...