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

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

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

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

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

African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size and influence.

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

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

China, the United States, India and all of continental Europe fit inside the African continent. The ‘Equal Earth’ map, which ...

Africa is mobilizing to correct the continent's representation on the world map, denouncing historical distortions and demanding a more faithful view that respects its true proportions.