Go with the Mercator map and all the continents and islands retain their real shapes — but the further north or south of the equator they are, the bigger they look compared countries near the equator.

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, Africa appears smaller than it is. In a bid to depict the continent's relative ...

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a “Change the Map” campaign in April. “When ...

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

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

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