The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...
The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...
Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.
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African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...
That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...
<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...
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