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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

The most commonly used world map could soon get a revamp to show the true scale of the African continent. The African Union ...