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

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

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

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

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

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

now including the African Union, believe this is grossly unfair. There’s a growing movement within the continent and its modern diaspora that argues the Mercator projection needs to be replaced with ...

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 ...

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

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

There are growing calls from African nations for the international community to adopt maps that accurately reflect the true ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.