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

Analysis - The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global ...

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

Designed to help European navigators at sea, the map distorted landmasses by enlarging regions near the poles such as North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America.

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...

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