Uncountable or Countable? Geo

For almost 500 years, the Mercator projection has been the preferred way of depicting the world and bringing geographic ___ across.

Especially in US schools, pupils have gained most of their geographical ___ with Mercator maps hanging on their classroom walls.

Gerardus Mercator, a renowned Flemish cartographer, devised his map projection in 1569 to aid ___ along colonial trade routes by drawing straight lines across the oceans.

During the last years, however, there ___ among academic ___ at geography faculties regarding the dominant use of Mercator maps in the educational sector.

By exaggerating the whole northern hemisphere and placing Europe in the middle of his map, ___ claim, Mercator made North America and Europe much bigger in ___ than South America and Africa.

___ not new. In the last decades, however, the critical voices have become louder claiming that this distortion has fostered imperialist ___ and created ethical ___ for the western civilization against the developing world.

Notably today's young geography teachers, who have often done ___ in their ___ , search for other projections when starting to teach.

Recently, there ___ that the Peters projection gains more and more ___ in American schools.

The Peters projection was published by the German Arno Peters in 1974 and matches ___ by the 19th-century mapper James Gall, so it is also known as the Gall-Peters projection.

The Gall-Peters projection has also been the target of ___ , as it distorts the shapes of countries. But it accurately scales their surface area and thereby, defenders argue, comes closer to the truth when depicting the size and ___ of nations.

You can also find ___ about the projections online. The Guardian, for example, published an article in 2017, reporting about the replacement of Mercator by Peters maps in the whole Boston school district. This step stirred ___ all over the US.

___ will show which map projection will make most ___ in the future. But ___ that a public discussion on the political correctness of world map projections has started.