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Togo has launched a campaign to adopt a world map that better represents the true size of Africa. Now Togo will ask UN member states to commit to ditching European centred maps in favour of more ... India Today on MSN: What's wrong with Africa's map? Should it concern India too? 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 ... FOX 10 Phoenix: Africa is much bigger than most maps show, and a new campaign wants that fixed 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 ...

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 Africanews on MSN: Togo to ask UN members to adopt world maps that show true size of Africa Togo to ask UN members to adopt world maps that show true size of Africa 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 ...