00:00Togo has launched a campaign to adopt a world map that better represents the true size of Africa.
00:07The size we see of the continent on the globe is geographically inaccurate, the country's foreign minister told Reuters.
00:15He said it's time for scientific truth.
00:19Now Togo will ask UN member states to commit to ditching European-centered maps in favour of more accurate representations.
00:30Earlier this year, the African Union adopted a resolution to address historical distortions caused by the much-used Mercator projection.
00:41First presented in the 16th century, the Mercator map shows land masses further from the equator, such as Greenland and
00:50Antarctica, to be larger than they are, while Africa is visually reduced.
00:58Advocacy group Africa No Filter has called the projection a colonial legacy that has distorted Africa's identity and reshaped how
01:07the world perceives the global south.
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