Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

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

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

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

Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the ...

THIS book, in the earlier chapters, traces the history of projection, and presents an account of the general theory, together with deductions. Then follows a chapter on the theory of the ...