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 ...

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

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 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 ...

African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...

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

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

For over five centuries, a single version of the world map has shaped our perception of geography. The Mercator projection, ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...