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 ...

The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real ...

For centuries, the familiar Mercator world map has quietly distorted Africa's size and significance. Now, a coalition of ...

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 ...

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

The African Union and campaigners want Africa's map to be corrected to its true size after years of distortion ...

China, the United States, India and all of continental Europe fit inside the African continent. The ‘Equal Earth’ map, which ...

The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...

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