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

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

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

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

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

I seem to be happily collecting maps and atlases (though I still need a functional globe), including a recent review copy of Oxford University Press's New Concise World Atlas.

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...

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

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

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