For 500 years, classrooms have relied on a distorted view that minimizes the continent’s scale.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has joined a campaign urging global institutions to adopt a map of Africa that more accurately reflects the ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in ...

African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...

An original 1935 map of Africa reveals a continent on the brink of dramatic change. By exploring colonial borders, forgotten ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

This post originally appeared on Global Citizen. In the last 500 years, a certain kind of map has been used to teach children about our planet. But public schools in Boston have made a big change — ...

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