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

The African Union's recent support for alternatives to the Mercator projection challenges historical cartographic distortions ...

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 ...

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

The most commonly used world map could soon get a revamp to show the true scale of the African continent. The African Union ...