A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current ...

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

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

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

The African Union urges global use of accurate map projections, challenging Mercator’s distortion of Africa’s true size and ...

The point, though, is that this makes it hard to visualize how big everything is. Here to fix that: The True Size Map. It's an online tool that lets you select countries from a Mercator Projection ...

He said he created this map to help people understand the true size of the world by using it in school lessons.

The African Union has voiced support for the adoption of a map that more accurately displays the real size of Africa. Also, ...

Many world maps use the Mercator projection, created in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation. While ...

The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real proportions ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...