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

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

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

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of ...

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

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

The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical ...

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

The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

Here is what to know about the effort to show Africa’s real size to the world. Africa appears too small on most modern maps The Mercator map was created in the 16th century by Flemish ...

"It almost became the de facto world map." On Mercator's map, Africa appears to be about the same size as Greenland, when in reality, it's about three times as big, Patterson said.