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

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 ...

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 African Union is now supporting the Correct the Map campaign for an “Equal Earth” alternative, which “shows the continent ...

The colonial-era Mercator map distorts continental size, making Africa look smaller than it is. The 55-nation African Union ...

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

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world, in favour of one that ...