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

Countries across the world are suspending parcel shipments to the U.S. over uncertainty over the Trump administration's ...

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

The U.S. ranks 18 on a map compiled by Newsweek with data showing the best and worst Organization for Economic cooperation and Development countries for taxes. Estonia was first, Latvia second and New ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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