The World Map You’ve Known Forever Is Wrong—and Africa Wants to Redraw It

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent’s true size

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...
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Google DeepMind releases highly accurate AI model map of Earth

Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research arm, announced the release of AlphaEarth Foundations on Wednesday, a new AI model that can process terabytes of daily satellite data ...

African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size

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

World map needs ‘correcting’ to show Africa’s true size, say campaigners

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.