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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...

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

According to the infographic map, most countries in the SADC Southern African Development Community have been googling South Africa.