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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The distortion has even influenced political perceptions of Trump, who once eyed buying Greenland, misled by maps showing it ...

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