The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with ...

PARIS - The French foreign ministry on Friday said it plans to abandon using maps with the traditional Mercator projection of the world, backing a push by Africa to give the continent a more realistic ...

Paris (France) (AFP) – The French foreign ministry on Friday said it plans to abandon using maps with the traditional Mercator projection of the world, backing a push by Africa to give the continent a ...

A new map projection endorsed by the U.N. aims to represent Africa and other continents at their more accurate relative sizes ...

France will stop using maps based on the traditional Mercator projection, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced on ...

The African Union’s complaints about the Mercator projection are misguided, writes Thomas Suárez. Plus a letter from Hamish Monk The Mercator projection is not a product of European chauvinism ...

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. A ...

Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display ...

Look at a conventional Mercator world map, and Greenland can appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger. That striking mismatch is at the heart of a renewed ...

Map showing Africa using the Mercator projection, left, and one from the Equal Earth campaign.Composite: equal-earth.com, Getty Images The subject of projections is incredibly complicated and you did ...

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