Africa Is 7 Times Bigger Than Europe. The World Map We're Used To Is A Lie

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

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

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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Trump Posts "Bitcoin Explanation" Lauding "The World's First Public Digital Payments Infrastructure"

Donald Trump praised this 2018 Senate testimony from Peter Van Valkenburgh as the best explanation of Bitcoin in a post Sunday on "Truth Social." "Bitcoin is the world's first cryptocurrency, and it ...

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 ...

Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...