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The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger.
It is a distortion that has prompted a new African initiative, "Correct the Map", calling for depictions that show Africa's true scale.
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