The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

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

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

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

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

The African continent is undergoing a geological transformation that, in the distant future, could create a new ocean.

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

The Mercator map, they argue, inflates North America and Europe while shrinking Africa, reinforcing a Western-centric view of the world that sidelines the continent and downplays its global ...

The African Union endorses the #CorrectTheMap campaign to promote accurate representation of Africa's size on world maps, ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a modern map that shows Africa’s true size.

Traditional 2-D maps of Earth are highly distorted, but this award-winning design makes a world of difference.