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

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

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

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

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

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

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

Russia has occupied a fifth of Ukrainian territory - and a big map showing the area shaded in red was put up in the Oval ...