How to Use Mercator projection in a Sentence

Mercator projection

noun

• The mobile app still defaults to the Mercator projection.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025
• The Mercator projection is still common in classrooms and tech platforms.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025
• On a world map in the Mercator projection, Russia appears larger than Africa.
  — Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
• The Mercator projection is still widely used, including by schools and tech companies.
  — Reuters 4 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
• On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025
• On the mobile app, however, the Mercator projection remains the default.
  — Reuters 4 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
• Criticism that the Mercator projection does not accurately reflect Africa’s real size is not new.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025
• Digital map platforms such as Google Maps also currently use a version of the Mercator projection.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
• The African Union argues that the Mercator projection distorts the continent, both in size and global attention.
  — Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
• In addition to the timetable, a world map (Mercator projection) is provided, showing the region where the occultation will be visible.
  — Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
• As an analogy, take the image of Greenland on a map centered at the North Pole and compare it with the image of the island on a Mercator projection.
  — Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026
• As a continent that’s bisected by the Equator, Africa is actually the least distorted of all in the Mercator projection.
  — Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
• Africa’s smaller-than-actual cartographic footprint in the Mercator projection contributes to the global lack of attention for Africa.
  — Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
• Ferencevych was referring to the Mercator projection, created in 1569 to aid maritime navigation.
  — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
• That projection prioritizes preserving the relative area of countries and continents, but sacrifices the accuracy of angles of the Mercator projection.
  — Meghan Bartels, Space.com, 22 Sep. 2026
• Mark Monmonier, a Syracuse University professor of geography, said the Mercator projection is obsolete and geographers have long advised people to not use it as a world map.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025
• At present, many of the world’s maps are based on the Mercator projection, created by European cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
• The Mercator projection was developed primarily for navigation.
  — Jewel Bright, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026
• The Mercator projection shows Greenland and Africa as appearing to be about the same size whereas in the Equal Earth projection that shows continents in their true proportions, Africa is 14 times larger than Greenland.
  — ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026
• Seasons in the Hindu Kush—Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter,2009–11, has the spectator stand above crushed pots as if surveying terrain from above—the godlike perspective of the Mercator projection, where mountains become miniature and geography flattens into a navigable surface.
  — Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026