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

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

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. A growing campaign ...

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 ...

Crisscrossed by rail-straight lines that correspond to constant compass bearings, the Mercator projection was ideal for navigation in the age of sail, at the expense of showing the actual size of ...

The continent of Africa looks different depending on which calculations you choose to make a three dimensional reality into a ...

How much power lies in a map? The push to replace the ‘distorted’ Mercator projection with a more accurate map that portrays ...

The African Union endorses the #CorrectTheMap campaign to promote accurate representation of Africa's size on world maps, ...

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth ...

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, Africa appears smaller than it is. In a bid to depict the continent's relative ...

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

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, ‘Africa No Filter’ and ‘Speak Up Africa’, launched a “Change the Map” campaign in April.