The True Size of Africa Continued: The Mercator Wars
Image Credit: Data Pointed After the poster that was the subject of Mike’s popular The True Size and Importance of Africa post was published, it sparked a lot of interest in the distortion caused by the Mercator projection. Many in India and Africa consider it to be a Eurocentric, imperialist relic, since it overemphasizes land masses further from the equator. At
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The True Size of Africa Continued: The Mercator Wars
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