Currently, British schools use and teach the Mercator projection map, made by Flemish cartographer Geradus Mercator in 1569.
This 400-year-old map was created at a time when Europe was seeking to establish dominance and Mercator’s intention was navigational accuracy – with an imperialist agenda.
His map was literally drawn along the colonial trade routes and as a result of this bias, European countries were depicted significantly larger than they physically are.https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/11/its-t...world-8102005/For instance, Mercator exaggerated the size of Greenland, when it is in fact 14 times smaller than Africa.