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 ...

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

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

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

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

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

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, Africa appears smaller than it is. In a bid to depict the continent's relative ...

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, ‘Africa No Filter’ and ‘Speak Up Africa’, launched a “Change the Map” campaign in April. “When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted map, ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

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