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The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...

The African Union urges global use of accurate map projections, challenging Mercator’s distortion of Africa’s true size and ...

The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real ...

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Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...