Exposing the Global Distortion: Why Correcting Africa’s Map Matters to America’s Sovereignty

More than four centuries after its creation, the Mercator projection remains the dominant world map despite a glaring flaw: it grossly distorts the size of continents, shrinking Africa to a fraction of its actual scale. Africa is fourteen times larger than Greenland and can fit almost all of Europe plus major countries like the United States, China, and Japan within its vast borders. Yet most maps in classrooms, government offices, and media outlets continue to mislead Americans about this crucial fact. Why Does This Matter to America? The persistent use of inaccurate maps is not a harmless cartographic quirk; it...