The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

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

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

On the surface, it’s just an old map—but every border tells a deeper story. This 1935 view of Africa offers a striking look into colonial power and how it shaped the continent ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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