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

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

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

The 55-nation alliance wants the world to adopt a new map that shows the relative size of the continents more accurately.

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 ...

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

For over five centuries, a single version of the world map has shaped our perception of geography. The Mercator projection, ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays ...

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. Criticism that the Mercator projection does not accurately reflect Africa ...

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.

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) – The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of ...