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

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

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in ...