World maps have underestimated Africa’s size for centuries. Activists hope to change that

When a U.S. government map wrongly labelled every African country, it underscored how maps have traditionally underestimated ...
Opinion

US State Department Ripped After Mislabeling Every Country On Africa Map In Presentation At AIDS Conference

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Phys.org

World maps get Africa's size wrong: Cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...
GCN

African Union pushes map showing Africa’s true scale

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 ...

State Department says it made ‘an unfortunate error’ when it mislabeled countries on map of Africa

The US State Department on Thursday said its use of a map that incorrectly labeled all the countries it identified on a map of Africa at an international conference this week was “an unfortunate error ...

U.S. State Department apologizes for African map blunder

The U.S. State Department has apologized for using an incorrectly labeled map of Africa during a presentation at the global ...
Hyperallergic

Africa Wants a More Accurate World Map

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 ...