{
  "id": 5790596,
  "title": "Paris drops Mercator projection: France now looks smaller on world maps",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/05/paris-drops-mercator-projection-france-now-looks-smaller-on-world-maps",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-05T15:16:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Euronews",
    "slug": "euronews",
    "url": "http://www.euronews.com/2026/09/05/paris-drops-mercator-projection-france-now-looks-smaller-on-world-maps"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}