Times Higher Education notes that the UN General Assembly voted to replace the Mercator map with one that more accurately reflects the size of continents and nations, sponsored by Togo and backed by AU members, with the support of 164 nations including France and the UK.
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We’ve been seeing the world all wrong for the last 500 years - and it has unfairly shaped perceptions of people’s place on our planet. The most commonly used Mercator ma…
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