The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as ...

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

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

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

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

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

For centuries, the familiar Mercator world map has quietly distorted Africa's size and significance. Now, a coalition of ...

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 African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

Shortly after Trump's comment, Max Roser at Our World in Data compiled charts and maps that show how much progress African countries have made in health, economics, and politics over the past ...

Which countries are the most at risk and where does the illness have the greatest chance of being appropriately stamped out? From the most vulnerable countries… To answer these questions, doctors, ...

A new map has revealed the most common religion in every African country, showing a clear divide between Christianity and Islam across the world’s second largest continent. The map, shared on ...