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 ...

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

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

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

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

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of ...

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

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

The African Union (AU) has backed a campaign to replace the Mercator projection — the 16th-century world map still used in ...

The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical ...