🌍 **Common world map shows 'distorted view' of Africa. Advocates are trying to change that**

"_Cartographers say the Mercator map has been used for purposes it was not intended to serve_"

🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/end-of-mercator-map-1.7615773.

#Africa #Maps #Cartography

#Image attribution: Gerardus Mercator, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercator_1569.png.