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

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

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 ...

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

For centuries, the Mercator map shrank Africa and India while inflating Europe and Greenland. Now, the African Union’s ...

Fourteen Greenlands would easily fit inside the African continent. So why do they look the same size on most maps?

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

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On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But ...

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