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The New York Times: Africa Is Big, and It Wants the World’s Maps to Show It Africa Is Big, and It Wants the World’s Maps to Show It MSN: World maps get Africa's size wrong: Cartographers explain why fixing it matters The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ... World maps get Africa's size wrong: Cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, Africa appears smaller than it is. In a bid to depict the continent's relative ... The Washington Post: Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...