Beyond Mercator: Mapping Africa
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The designers of the Equal Earth mapping project will bring their expertise to Togo and the African Union (AU). The technicians will accompany the implementation of the resolution "Corriger la carte" (Correct the Map), adopted on 4 September 2026 by the UN General Assembly.
The UN General Assembly decided on September 4 to send Mercator's map of the world used for centuries to the dustbin of history and adopt a new, more reliable one. Lands in the southern hemisphere are somewhat larger, and Africa fared best. Poor Togo, as the proposer of the resolution, won a moral victory on behalf of the rest of the continent. Real victories will continue to be recorded by the more powerful…
Beyond Mercator: Mapping Africa
On 4 September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted (with 164 votes) a ‘Correct the Map’ resolution sponsored by Togo and backed by members of the African Union. It aims to correct a misperception of maps of Africa which, since the 16th century, have been based on wrong proportions. The map which has been used up until now was designed in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512-1592). It contains distortions of real terr…
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