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

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

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

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

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

Turns out the map on your classroom wall has been lying harder than a freshman explaining why his essay smells like tequila.

Proponents say the visual misrepresentation reinforces narratives that portray Africa as underdeveloped and peripheral to global affairs.

The African Union (AU) has endorsed a campaign to use a map that represents Africa more accurately than the traditional ...

The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical ...

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

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