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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

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

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

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

The African Union urges global use of accurate map projections, challenging Mercator’s distortion of Africa’s true size and ...