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 ...

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

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

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...

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

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

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

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

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...

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

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