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

The African Union urges global use of accurate map projections, challenging Mercator’s distortion of Africa’s true size and ...

The most commonly used world map could soon get a revamp to show the true scale of the African continent. The African Union ...

Many world maps use the Mercator projection, created in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation. While ...

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

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

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

AU launches campaign to replace distorted Mercator map projection • Equal Earth map promoted to show Africa’s true size • Goal: restore Africa’s global image in education and media The African Union ...

The African Union has voiced support for the adoption of a map that more accurately displays the real size of Africa. Also, ...

The African Union has backed mounting calls to discontinue the Mercator map, which inaccurately shrinks Africa’s true ...

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

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...