LThe size of Africa does not match that displayed on the maps. In reality the African continent would make up the area of the great cumulative powers (without Russia). This information has been agitating the web since the publication of a map on Twitter by a BBC journalist. Since your first steps on the school benches, you have had the opportunity to face many planispheres and other terrestrial globes. But did you know that the dimensions of the African continent were wrong? Most of the maps you have seen so far are based on the Mercator projection. This point of view benefits European countries in terms of their extent. This vision was created in the XNUMXth century for a psychological purpose to spread the idea that Westerners were powerful.
A map that is oriented and false.
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