The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with one that more accurately reflects the true size of continents like Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution adopted by the ...

For centuries, human understanding of the size, shape and bearing of nations has been laid out by one map based on a single projection of the way the world looks. The Mercator projection was designed ...

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France is redrawing its world map: deeming the Mercator projection misleading, the foreign ministry will drop it in favour of a map that better reflects actual continental sizes, especially Africa.