Countries across the world are suspending parcel shipments to the U.S. over uncertainty over the Trump administration's ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

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The African Union says the Mercator projection distorts Africa’s size and identity—and it’s pushing a new map to set the ...

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

Japan’s coastline wraps around 6,852 islands, with the four main ones - Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku - making up most ...

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions depicted on maps communicate social meaning. They subtly but powerfully educate ...

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

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