The 55-nation alliance wants the world to adopt a new map that shows the relative size of the continents more accurately.

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 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 has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

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

“Africa is misrepresented on the world maps, and it’s not just a matter of geography — it’s a reflection of how the world ...

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

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 ...

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 one that more accurately displays ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Here’s how you’ve been misled A world map drawn in the 1500s is to blame ...

The Mercator projection fosters a false impression that Africa is marginal, an African Union official said.