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

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

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

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

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

The colonial-era Mercator map distorts continental size, making Africa look smaller than it is. The 55-nation African Union ...

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

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

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 ...

Many world maps use the Mercator projection, created in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation. While ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

The African Union backs a campaign to replace the Mercator map with a more accurate projection that reflects Africa’s true ...