The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

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

Turns out the map on your classroom wall has been lying harder than a freshman explaining why his essay smells like tequila. For centuries, the Mercator projection has made Greenland look like it ...

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, ‘Africa No Filter’ and ‘Speak Up Africa’, launched a “Change the Map” campaign in April. “When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted map, ...

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 Africa ...

I’ve been to Africa 20 times. It’s my favorite continent, and I get excited every time I get a chance to go back. As a mom to two young and very-high energy boys, I often wonder when is the ideal age ...