It is part of an exhibition drawing attention to the history of South Africa and the way it is perceived around the world. The Chinese map, covering more than 17 square metres, was produced in silk.

Each location could be plotted on a map. The dots would be scattered widely ... This kind of everyone-as-informant mapping is shaking up the world, bringing the Wikipedia revolution to the ...

But, in reality, three Canadas would comfortably fit inside Africa. Our world map is wildly misleading. It’s all down to the European cartographer Geert de Kremer, better known as Mercator ...

A new kind of world map (above) has been developed that shows ... greatly distorts the relative areas of land masses. It makes Africa look tiny, and Greenland and Russia appear huge.

Which might be the reason why some people still think of Africa as a country, and not a continent consisting of 54 different countries... To help us better understand the scale of our spherical planet ...