For centuries, the familiar Mercator world map has quietly distorted Africa's size and significance. Now, a coalition of ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

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

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

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

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

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

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