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Why Africa looks smaller than it really is on Google Maps

Africa is not happy with how Google Maps portrays it. The popular Mercator map projection, used by Google Maps and many other ...
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The most famous map of the world is inaccurate. Africa’s not having it anymore

New Delhi: Member states of the African Union, on 15 August, signed a petition for the world to ‘reject’ the Mercator map projection and accept a more equitable projection that “more accurately ...