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

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 ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good ...

When you look at a world map, do you ever wonder if the sizes of countries are really what they seem? If you’ve ever thought ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

In 1569, Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator drew such a world map, using what has ... look far larger in the Mercator ...

At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map and saw something ... was and is especially popular in classrooms: the Mercator Projection. Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish ...

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