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 ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

The African Union endorses the #CorrectTheMap campaign to promote accurate representation of Africa's size on world maps, ...

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

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

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 continent of Africa looks different depending on which calculations you choose to make a three dimensional reality into a ...

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

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

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 ...

Rare African maps stored in Northwestern's Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies can now be browsed from anywhere in the world. The collection consists of 113 maps published in Europe ...