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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...

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

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

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