New world map is a more accurate Earth and shows Africa's full size
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The “Equal Earth” projection shows the true area of continents such as Africa without greatly distorting their shapes and is already being adopted by NASA
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What's the real size of Africa? How Western states used maps to downplay size of continent
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The great map myth was incredibly unfair to the 'mother continent': This is the true size of Africa
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Fra Mauro: The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science
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