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 Greenland, which appears to be about the same size as Africa on the ...

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 ...

Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish geographer who ... To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer ...