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

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

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current ...

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

The African Union urges global use of accurate map projections, challenging Mercator’s distortion of Africa’s true size and ...

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

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...

China, the United States, India and all of continental Europe fit inside the African continent. The ‘Equal Earth’ map, which ...

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...

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 ...

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...