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

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

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

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

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

The African Union backs a campaign to replace the Mercator map with a more accurate projection that reflects Africa’s true ...

China, the United States, India and all of continental Europe fit inside the African continent. The ‘Equal Earth’ map, which ...

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

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

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...