The world map is a lie: How the Mercator projection warped our minds (Video)

The world map you grew up with is improper. A Sixteenth-century map designed for sailors ended up shipwrecking our minds, and shaping world superpowers, for hundreds of years. The Mercator projection vastly distorts actuality — making international locations like Greenland and Europe look huge, whereas Africa and South America shrink.

From the controversial Peters Projection sparking outrage within the Seventies to the African Union’s present “Equal Earth” marketing campaign, it is clear that people nonetheless do not agree on what the world even seems to be like.