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

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

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 ...

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

Several of the governments backing Trump's nomination are led by authoritarian figures, military juntas, or leaders facing international arrest warrants.