Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...
The Mercator projection is considered one of the most important and influential world map projections still used today. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) In actuality, Africa is much bigger than ...
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Greenland Looks So Huge on Maps, Here’s the Distortion That’s Been Trickling Us All Along!
Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map ...
DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...
Maps sit quietly in classrooms, on news websites and inside phone screens. They look settled and precise, but the world they show is always slightly bent out of shape. Because the Earth is round, any ...
Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the ...
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 ...
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