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

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

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

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 ...