African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

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 backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

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

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

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

Image Represents One of the First-Ever Maps of the World Anaximander's map was said to have been made between 2,500 and 2,600 years ago.

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