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

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

The African Union says the Mercator projection distorts Africa’s size and identity—and it’s pushing a new map to set the record straight.

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

The most commonly used world map could soon get a revamp to show the true scale of the African continent. The African Union ...

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 endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current ...

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

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

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

The African Union has voiced support for the adoption of a map that more accurately displays the real size of Africa. Also, ...