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

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South Amer ...

The distortion has even influenced political perceptions of Trump, who once eyed buying Greenland, misled by maps showing it ...