The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

Tiny Africa, Massive Europe: Why World Maps are Lying to You | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G The world map you grew up with is wrong- and it’s not just a small mistake. The Mercator projection, ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

Ogundairo’s obsession with map projections is not random. The 28-year-old is leading an African-led campaign to get more of global institutions and schools to immediately stop using the Mercator ...

The Galls-Peters Projection. | Strebe, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0 Cartographers agreed that the Mercator map was outdated, inaccurate, and wasn’t the best way to represent the world’s ...

16th Cent. mercator found by ----Voyinch. Skip to content Skip to site index ... Map with Equidistant Polar Projection, Supposed to Antedate Mcreator's Chart, Found. Share full article.

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 designed this map in the 16th century, this projection shows meridians as parallel lines, which made the picture simple to display on ...