The Towns of Culpeper and Warrenton also have projected growth over the 30 year-period with Culpeper anticipated to reach ...

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

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

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

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

For centuries, Africa has been misrepresented, not just in trade or colonial history, but also on classroom wall maps, which shrink its true size and global significance. From Rabat to Lagos, students ...