WORLD● LOWSep 5 · Sep 5, 2026, 3:16 PM
Paris drops Mercator projection: France now looks smaller on world maps
EuroNews [en] · western europe
France is redrawing its world map: deeming the Mercator projection misleading, the foreign ministry will drop it in favour of a map that better reflects actual continental sizes, especially Africa.
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