The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — 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 ...
Currently, the three largest countries in Africa by land area are Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and ...
LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) -The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more ...
The scale and diversity of the African continent poses challenges for project logistics providers - and offers opportunities ...
Africa gradually pulled apart along the East African rift, a slow tectonic shift that could have formed a new ocean and reshaped the continent over time.
The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...
On many world maps, Greenland and Africa can look almost the same size. But the reality is very different. Africa covers an ...