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

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

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

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

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

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

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...

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Go with the Mercator map and all the continents and islands retain their real shapes — but the further north or south of the equator they are, the bigger they look compared countries near the equator.

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