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

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

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

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

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately reflects the true size of Africa.

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays ...

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 ...