The GuardianUK News & Comment• 1 min read
Africa is bigger than we’ve been led to believe – what next?

A new map of the world rescales the size of Africa and calls into question our perception of land, power and influence This month, the UN passed a resolution, brought to the assembly by Togo, to phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe and replace it with another that…
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