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The
chairperson of the AU spoke about the Mercator map. She told Reuters: "It might seem to be
a map, but in
, it is not." She said the Mercator gave the
that Africa was less important. She said Africa is the world's second-largest
by area and has more than one billion people. The executive director of the non-
organization Africa No Filter agreed. She said the Mercator map was "the world's longest
and disinformation campaign and it just simply has to stop". The
Speak Up Africa wants people to use the 2018 Equal Earth map, on which "Africa appears 14 times
than Greenland, as it
is".