US EditionThe World Map As You Know It Is Misleading – Now Africa Wants To Change That
The African Union leads a global effort to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection, which shows Africa's size more accurately, highlighting its true global significance.
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A global campaign wants to redraw the world map so that it gives a fairer picture of the size of countries. An initiative supported by the African Union and would mean that Sweden would “shrink”. – It is the world’s longest disinformation campaign, says one of the campaign leaders Moky Makura.
Africa Wants a More Accurate World Map
The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African countries, endorsed a version of the world map that more accurately reflects the continent’s scale earlier this month, as first reported by Reuters. The union said it would back the Correct the Map campaign to pressure governments and global organizations to phase out the widely used Mercator map in favor of the Equal Earth projection first proposed in 2018. The former distorts t…
The African Union has backed a campaign to redraw the world map. They want to throw the Mercator map in the trash.
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