Daily Mail

Africa's plan to redraw 'skewed' world map: 55-nation African Union calls for 'Equal Earth' map to replace those that 'misrepresent continent's true scale'

African nations are demanding that the 'distorted' world map be redrawn to show the true scale of the continent that they argue has been misrepresented for centuries. The African Union (AU) has backed ...
Newsweek

True-Scale Map Comparing Russia to Africa Blows People’s Minds

A video showing the true size of Russia compared to Africa has gone viral on TikTok as social media users learn about the misrepresentation of scale on many world maps. First posted in late February, ...
TribLIVE.com

Campaigners want to change the world map to show Africa is bigger

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...
Labroots

Here's Why Flat Maps of the World Aren't Drawn to Scale

Whenever you glance at a flat world map, you should take what you see with a grain of salt. One in particular, known as the Mercator projection, distorts the actual sizes of landmasses like Alaska and ...