The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

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

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

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

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

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

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

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

The African Union endorses the #CorrectTheMap campaign to promote accurate representation of Africa's size on world maps, ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

An overhead view of the East African Rift, with a river in a cultivated valley flanked by steep cliffs A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression ...

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) – The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of ...