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30 countries compared to the United States with a real scale perspective

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The map you learned in school is wrong; Boston students will be taught a new one

Our world does not look like the map on the wall of the classrooms you grew up in.In order to flatten the spherical globe onto a flat map, cartographers had to make adjustments to the sizes of the ...
Arab Times

From Mercator to Winkel Tripel: The quest for a true world map

In school, I was, and still am, excellent in geography and history, but very poor in Arabic grammar and mathematics, and average in the other subjects. The world map has been my passion ever since I ...
FOX8 Cleveland

Campaigners want to change world map to show Africa is bigger

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 ...
THE WEEK

Boston schools ditch 'misleading' world map

Around 600 classrooms in Boston are set to ditch the widely used but highly distorted traditional map of the world in favour of a more accurate depiction of the globe. Schools will use the Gall-Peters ...
Mena FN

Why Does Greenland Look Bigger Than Africa - And India Smaller? The Mercator Projection Explained

(MENAFN- Live Mint) The African Union has joined a growing campaign to challenge centuries of cartographic distortion that has long diminished Africa's true scale on world maps. The bloc of 55 nations ...
The Washington Post

When examining maps, understand their strengths and limitations

Coronavirus cases and deaths as of 11:54 a.m. Friday. This thematic map type is appropriate for this presentation because it does not systematically distort area. Perspective by David Policansky We ...