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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The Mercator map of the world is used by many governments and international organisations. But the Correct The Map campaign ...

Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across the wall. Generations of children have grown up learning that this projection is what ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

The African Union urges global use of accurate map projections, challenging Mercator’s distortion of Africa’s true size and ...

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...

Jack Swab and Derek AldermanThe African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign ...