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

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

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 ...

African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...

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

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

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

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

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

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

The African Union has backed mounting calls to discontinue the Mercator map, which inaccurately shrinks Africa’s true ...