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

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

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

Africa’s economy is projected to be worth more than $16 trillion by 2050, nearly 10% of global GDP, up from just 3% today. By ...

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

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

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents ...

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents ...

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

The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. The real size of many countries is ...