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

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

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

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Africa is putting its foot down when it comes to the Mercator projection map, the most widely used representation of the ...

For over five centuries, a single version of the world map has shaped our perception of geography. The Mercator projection, ...

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