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 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 ...

Africa is putting its foot down when it comes to the Mercator projection map, the most widely used representation of the ...

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

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 ...

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

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

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