{"id":14147,"date":"2024-05-27T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T07:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/the-true-size-of-africa-did-you-know-that-africa-is-bigger-than-it-looks-on-most-maps-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:00:15","slug":"the-true-size-of-africa-did-you-know-that-africa-is-bigger-than-it-looks-on-most-maps-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/fr\/the-true-size-of-africa-did-you-know-that-africa-is-bigger-than-it-looks-on-most-maps-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"LA VRAIE TAILLE DE L&rsquo;AFRIQUE : SAVIEZ-VOUS QUE L&rsquo;AFRIQUE EST PLUS GRANDE QUE CE QU&rsquo;ELLE Y PARAIT SUR LA PLUPART DES CARTES DU MONDE ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saviez-vous que <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/Mercator-projection\">la projection Mercator,<\/a> couramment utilis\u00e9e sur les cartes, d\u00e9forme la taille relative des pays, rendant les r\u00e9gions proches de l&rsquo;\u00e9quateur, comme l&rsquo;Afrique, beaucoup plus petits qu&rsquo;ils ne le sont ?<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019Afrique, le deuxi\u00e8me plus grand continent, couvre 30,37 millions de kilom\u00e8tres carr\u00e9s et peut contenir les \u00c9tats-Unis, la Chine, l\u2019Inde et la majeure partie de l\u2019Europe. Cependant, la projection de Mercator donne l\u2019impression que le Groenland a une taille similaire \u00e0 celle de l\u2019Afrique, bien qu\u2019il soit beaucoup plus petit.<\/p>\n<p>Cette distorsion affecte notre perception de l&rsquo;importance et de l&rsquo;ampleur de l&rsquo;Afrique.<\/p>\n<p>Utiliser des projections cartographiques alternatives, telles que la projection <a href=\"https:\/\/map-projections.net\/compare.php?p1=gall-peters&amp;p2=mercator-84&amp;w=0\">Gall-Peters<\/a >, qui repr\u00e9sente avec pr\u00e9cision la taille relative des masses continentales, peut nous aider \u00e0 mieux appr\u00e9cier la taille v\u00e9ritable et l&rsquo;importance de l&rsquo;Afrique !<\/p>\n<p>Pour en savoir plus, <a href=\"https:\/\/equal-earth.com\/equal-earth-projection.html\">cliquez ici<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saviez-vous que la projection Mercator, couramment utilis\u00e9e sur les cartes, d\u00e9forme la taille relative des pays, rendant les r\u00e9gions proches de l&rsquo;\u00e9quateur, comme l&rsquo;Afrique, beaucoup plus petits qu&rsquo;ils ne le sont ? L\u2019Afrique, le deuxi\u00e8me plus grand continent, couvre 30,37 millions de kilom\u00e8tres carr\u00e9s et peut contenir les \u00c9tats-Unis, la &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,122],"tags":[788,485,500,789],"class_list":["post-14147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites","category-news-snippets-fr","tag-africa-fr","tag-facts-fr","tag-fun-fact-fr","tag-maps-fr"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14149,"href":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147\/revisions\/14149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patersonsimons.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}