Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

The African Union has called for replacing the venerable Mercator map projection with another one that would show Africa’s ...

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African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...

The Mercator projection is considered one of the most important and influential world map projections still used today. Developed in the sixteenth century by Gerardus Mercator, this projection was ...

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...

As you explore the Study Abroad website, you may see the map above and wonder why it looks slightly different than maps you are used to seeing. This map is an example of the Gall-Peters Projection, ...