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

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current ...

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 ...

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

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

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

For centuries, the familiar Mercator world map has quietly distorted Africa's size and significance. Now, a coalition of ...

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

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

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

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