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

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

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

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a modern map that shows Africa’s true size.

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

Criticism of the Mercator map is not new, but the 'Correct The Map' campaign – led by advocacy groups Africa No Filter and ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

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 ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

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

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...