Africanews on MSN: Togo to ask UN members to adopt world maps that show true size of Africa Togo has launched a campaign to adopt a world map that better represents the true size of Africa. Now Togo will ask UN member states to commit to ditching European centred maps in favour of more ... Togo to ask UN members to adopt world maps that show true size of Africa Black Enterprise on MSN: This African Nation Says Its Time For World Map To Reflect The Continent's True Size This African Nation Says Its Time For World Map To Reflect The Continent's True Size By Noel Kokou Tadegnon and Catarina Demony LOME, April 14 (Reuters) - Togo will ask United Nations member states to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the true size of Africa and ditch ...

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Sahara Reporters: Togo, African Union Seek UN Adoption Of New World Map Reflecting Africa’s True Size Togo, African Union Seek UN Adoption Of New World Map Reflecting Africa’s True Size Yahoo: World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters But the size, shape, and distance of all the continents and oceans on a rectangular world map are actually distorted by design. These distortions affect the way we view geography, culture, and the ... Reuters on MSN: Togo to ask UN member states to use map showing Africa's true size Togo to ask UN member states to use map showing Africa's true size