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

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

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

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

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

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead.

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days.

Claudius Ptolemy, World Map, 150 AD Al-Sharif al-Idrisi, World Map, 1154 Richard of Haldingham, Mappa-mundi, 1300 The Yu Ji Tu, 1137 Martin Waldseemüller's Universal Cosmography, ...