Africa: UN Backs Effort to Drop Mercator Map and Show Size of Africa More Accurately
Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines Togo led the initiative to further the African Union campaign to limit use of the Mercator projection, named after a 16th-century Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator."The United States, Russia and China take on a disproportionate visual importance compared with Africa, Latin America or South-East Asia," said France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot when he announced on Friday that France will stop using maps based on the Mercator projection." Sign up for free AllAfrica Newsletters Get the latest in African news delivered straight to your inbox Barrot said the move was in line with France's push against over-simplified views of the world that pit a so-called "global south" against "the West" and portray Europe as being in decline.
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