In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real proportions ...

Date 2001 Call number AFA Map case Type Cartographic materials Maps Maps, Topographic Physical description 2 maps on 1 sheet : both sides, col. ; sheet 79 x 52 cm., folded to 13 x 20 cm Place Africa ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Africa is far bigger than you may think. If you look at a map or globe, the continent ...