The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger.

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The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

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For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

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