Crisscrossed by rail-straight lines that correspond to constant compass bearings, the Mercator projection was ideal for navigation in the age of sail, at the expense of showing the actual size of ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

The colonial-era Mercator map distorts continental size, making Africa look smaller than it is. The 55-nation African Union joins the push to embrace a new world map. Keep KCRW Independent. KCRW is ...

A new kind of world map (above) has been developed that shows the true size of the continents without distorting their shapes too much. The world map you are probably familiar with is called the ...

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IN showing elevation on a map of the world generalisations are essential, but detail and accuracy must not be sacrificed for the sake of graphic effect if such a map is to have any practical value in ...

Think about a map of the world. The image you're picturing will most likely resemble the Mercator projection—a 2D representation of the globe created in the 1500s which most maps you commonly come ...

African Union Urges Adoption of World Map Showing Continent's True Size (Clarifies number of AU member states in paragraph 3) By Catarina Demony and AyenDeng Bior LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) -The African ...