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

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

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

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

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 ...

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current ...

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

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 ...

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

Many world maps use the Mercator projection, created in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation. While ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...