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Greenland looks the same size as Africa on almost every map you have ever seen, and Africa is fourteen times larger

Picture a world map. Almost everyone picturing one is imagining the same thing: a ...
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Sizing up Africa: The AU vs the Gerardus Mercator map standard

There is an episode in The West Wing television series in which White House press spokesperson CJ Craig meets a delegation of cartographers, who explain that the standard world map — a Mercator ...