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Video. Paris drops Mercator projection: France now looks smaller on world maps

Updated: 05/09/2026 - 21:12 GMT+2

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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