Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

Science The real size of countries is very different from what is shown on maps We’ve all used tools like Google Maps often, but how correct is the sizing of every territory in them? Turns out ...

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

This discrepancy between the map size of a country and the real size of a country happens because we try to project our world which is shaped like a sphere (which is 3D, you know) onto a 2D map.

The African Union urges global use of accurate map projections, challenging Mercator’s distortion of Africa’s true size and ...

This phenomenon can be attributed to the Mercator projection, a map most commonly seen hanging in classrooms and in text books, which was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the world.

' The True Size Of ... ' is a site that eliminates the drawbacks of such maps and allows you to accurately compare the sizes of each country.

This helps you understand the true size of countries. We at Bored Panda played a bit with this tool, and what we found will change your perspective on our planet’s geography.

The feature of 'The True Size Of ...' is that it displays the size of the country entered in the search field in the upper left so that you can see it at a glance.