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

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 ...

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

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

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 joined a campaign urging global institutions to adopt a map of Africa that more accurately reflects the continent’s size. The Mercator map, widely used since 1599, shows a ...

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

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish Africa’s size and, along with it, its place in the world. But a new ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century ...