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 ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

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 (AU) has backed a campaign to replace the Mercator projection — the 16th-century world map still used in ...

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

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

The most commonly used world map could soon get a revamp to show the true scale of the African continent. The African Union ...

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

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