Africa Wants A New Map! | Dylan Page

0:00Africa wants a new world map, calling the current one the world's longest misinformation campaign. This week the African Union officially backed what's called the correct map campaign, which aims to replace our current standardized world map with a version that shows a country's true size. You see the Makator map intentionally distorts the sizes of continents and countries for navigation purposes. So it appears that Africa is a similar size to the US or China. When in reality it is so much bigger that the US, China, India, Japan and much of West in Europe can all fit into Africa and their still would be space left over. The African Union says that this over 500 year old map is outdated and are now calling for schools, governments and international institutions to adopt images that reflect a country's true size. They propose the equal earth projection because they say this is so much more than just a map. It's about Africa's identity and pride. In fact the head of a campaign group backing this says it's the world's longest misinformation and disinformation campaign

1:02and it simply has to stop. So the question is what do you think? Does size truly matter or is the current map fine the way it is?