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 ...

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 ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.

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 ...

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

The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real ...

The Mercator map, widely used since 1599, shows a version of Africa that has been distorted to appear significantly smaller.

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

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