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Campaigners want to change the world map to show Africa is bigger

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But ...

The problem with AU’s bigger map proposal

The AU’s concerns are hardly new. In the 1970s and 1980s, the same debate raged fiercely until it was resolved in favor of ...

Africa's plan to redraw 'skewed' world map: 55-nation African Union calls for 'Equal Earth' map to replace those that 'misrepresent continent's true scale'

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world, in favour of one that ...