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

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

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

African Union Urges Adoption of World Map Showing Continent's True Size (Clarifies number of AU member states in paragraph 3) By Catarina Demony and AyenDeng Bior LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) -The ...

The Mercator projection fosters a false impression that Africa is marginal, an African Union official said.

France, the United Kingdom, Canada and Malta announced plans this week to recognize a Palestinian state that does not yet exist. Nearly 150 of the 193 members of the United Nations have already ...