CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...

For over five centuries, a single version of the world map has shaped our perception of geography. The Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569, was originally ...

The most widely used map in the U.S. today is the Mercator projection map. Mercator maps often appear in businesses, in libraries and in classrooms where geography is taught. This popularity is ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Mercator map, created ...

The flat world map we normally see is made by the Mercator projection, which is a cylindrical map projection developed by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. While the linear scale is equal in all ...

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(MENAFN- Live Mint) The African Union has joined a growing campaign to challenge centuries of cartographic distortion that has long diminished Africa's true scale on world maps. The bloc of 55 nations ...