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Maps of the world are 'completely misleading' as true size of countries shown

Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in countries' sizing. Some nations near the Poles appear significantly larger than they truly are, while others ...

The true size of Africa

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.
Yahoo

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

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...
Reuters

African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been refiled to clarify the number of AU member states in paragraph 3) The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments ...
The Washington Post

Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...