Times Now · WorldNews · 2026-09-07
Africa is Bigger than You Think: Journeys Within the Continent that Reveal its
The world map we've spent our school years marking out countries on, was for all practical purposes, distorted. The map that has been followed for generations on end - the traditional 16th century Mercator projection - now stands dismissed in suggestion by the United Nations, in favour of equal area map projections, like the Equal Earth projection.
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