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

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

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

The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to get rid of it for good. Last week, the African Union, a continental union of ...

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

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

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

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

The rendering of America and Africa in Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map (Wikimedia Commons) In June 2012, Brian McClendon, an executive at Google, announced that Google Maps and Google Earth ...