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African Union Back Campaign to Adopt More Realistic World Map

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a campaign to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the continent’s relative size than the one currently adorning most geography-class walls.

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The New Arab

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African Union takes up fight to correct Mercator map

The distortion has even influenced political perceptions of Trump, who once eyed buying Greenland, misled by maps showing it to be bigger than Africa.

10 hours ago·London, United Kingdom

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20 Minutes

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Large Campaign to Correct the Map of the World and Return Its Place to Africa

While Greenland seems to be of a size similar to Africa, it could return 14 times to the African continent

14 hours ago·France

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Hot News

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Africa, Half on Paper? African Union Asks for a World Paper Correction that “Artificial Sizes” Europe - hotnews.ro

The Mercator project, designed by geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in the 16th century to help maritime navigation, is criticised by an organization that militaryizes it to be replaced by a map...

14 hours ago·Romania

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Il Post

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Africa Would Like to Change the Maps of the World

And replace the current ones, which reduce it compared to the northern countries

16 hours ago·Italy

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Bloomberg

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African Union Back Campaign to Adopt More Realistic World Map

18 hours ago·United States

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El Universo

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What Is the Projection of Mercator and Why African Countries Want It to Stop Being Used to Make the World Map?

The African Union, the organization that brings together all African States, joined a campaign this Monday to stop using Mercator's projection for the world map.

1 day ago

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