A map is a two-dimensional drawing of an area. Maps can show the countryside, a town, a country or even the whole world. They can be on paper or on a mobile phone, tablet or computer.

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

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

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