A new online platform called wplace invites users to “paint the world” on a massive digital canvas. This ever-evolving map ...

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 started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more ...

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 ...

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

We don’t often question the typical world map that hangs on the walls of classrooms — a patchwork of yellow, pink and green that separates the world into more than 200 nations. But Parag ...

Jack Swab and Derek AldermanThe 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 ...

Princeton astrophysicists re-imagine world map, designing a less distorted, ‘radically different’ way to see the world By Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications on Feb. 15, 2021, 2:13 p.m.