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

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

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

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The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to ...

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

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

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

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

The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, ...

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