👤 Gerardus Mercator

PERSON · appears in 10 article(s)

Mention Timeline

Publisher Coverage

The Straits Times World News 2 articles · 2 mentions
BBC News 2 articles · 2 mentions
World news | The Guardian 1 articles · 1 mentions
World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu 1 articles · 1 mentions
News - South China Morning Post 1 articles · 1 mentions
National Post 1 articles · 1 mentions
Just In 1 articles · 1 mentions
Dawn - Home 1 articles · 1 mentions

Associated Topics

🏷️ Mercator (9)🏷️ African (6)🏷️ The United Nations General Assembly (5)🏷️ France (5)🏷️ Flemish (4)🏷️ the United States (4)🏷️ Togo (3)🏷️ The United Nations (2)

Associated Narratives

At the heart of this demand is the charge that the Mercator projection, still widely used in schools… assertive
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"You can preserve area, or you can preserve shape, or you can preserve distance and direction, but n… assertive
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Foreign Minister Robert Dussey of Togo, which sponsored the resolution, said maps “guide education, … assertive
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UN adopts new world map showing true scale of continents; only US votes against it The United Nation… mixed
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The Mercator projection focused on accurate depictions of the shapes and angles of land masses, but … assertive
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"[In that map] the United States, Russia and China take on a disproportionate visual prominence comp… assertive
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Articles

2026-09-06 · World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu 1× mentioned
What’s the issue with the way Africa is shown on maps? | Explained
2026-09-05 · BBC News 1× mentioned
What different world maps get right - and what they get wrong
2026-09-05 · National Post 1× mentioned
UN adopts ‘more accurate’ world map with larger Africa and smaller North America, Europe
2026-09-04 · The Straits Times World News 1× mentioned
While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Sept 5, 2026
2026-09-04 · Just In 1× mentioned
Africa bigger, US smaller as UN votes to adopt a new world map
2026-09-04 · BBC News 1× mentioned
UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
2026-09-04 · Dawn - Home 1× mentioned
UN adopts major map reform to show true scale of continents
2026-09-04 · The Straits Times World News 1× mentioned
UN adopts new world map showing true scale of continents; only US votes against it
2026-09-04 · News - South China Morning Post 1× mentioned
UN adopts new map: Africa bigger, North America and Europe smaller
2026-09-04 · World news | The Guardian 1× mentioned
UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale

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