The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent’s true size
africa, Africa reimagined, cartography, continental size, decolonizing cartography, europe, geography, geop, geopolitics, global, global affairs, map politics, maps, Mercator, p, projection, representation, size matters, visual representation, world map