For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish ...

This is due to the Mercator Projection, a map type dating back to 1569 ... The most glaring example of this distortion is ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...