The 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 currently has ...

Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Here’s how you’ve been misled A world map drawn in the 1500s is to blame ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign urging governments, schools, and institutions to replace outdated world maps that distort the continent's true size.

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

This post originally appeared on Global Citizen. In the last 500 years, a certain kind of map has been used to teach children about our planet. But public schools in Boston have made a big change — ...

The 1569 Mercator map did not merely misrepresent Africa’s size—it mutilated its dignity and incapacitated its destiny. From the moment Gerardus Mercator shrank Africa on paper, the continent ...

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. Criticism that the Mercator projection does not accurately reflect Africa ...

Philippe Mayaux, Tim Richards, Eve Janodet, Special Paper: A Vegetation Map of Central Africa Derived from Satellite Imagery, Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 26, No. 2 ...

A TikTok video showing Russia dwarfed by the continent of Africa shows how many world maps misrepresent the true scale of countries.

Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Space42 and Microsoft to support the Map Africa Initiat ...