The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

The “Correct the Map” petition wants to abandon the Mercator map of the world. The AU has now thrown its weight behind the ...

African Union backs revolutionary campaign to replace distorted Mercator map that shrinks Africa 14 times smaller, demanding Equal Earth projection.

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

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

The 55-nation alliance wants the world to adopt a new map that shows the relative size of the continents more accurately.

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, Africa appears smaller than it is. In a bid to depict the continent's relative ...

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

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

“Africa is misrepresented on the world maps, and it’s not just a matter of geography — it’s a reflection of how the world ...