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55 Countries Say the World Map Is All Wrong

For centuries, the familiar Mercator world map has quietly distorted Africa's size and significance. Now, a coalition of ...

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

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

Africa Is Big, and It Wants the World’s Maps to Show It

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of ...

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 ...

World map doesn't show Africa's true size as second-largest continent, change it, says AU

The African Union (AU) has endorsed a campaign for the worldwide adoption of the ‘correct’ map of the continent that ...
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Distorted maps have misled you: Greenland isn't as big as you think.

A view shows the city of Nuuk, Greenland, February 9, 2025. Greenland is still pretty big. Depending on how you define its political status, it's around the 12th largest nation in the world.