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

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

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

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

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a modern map that shows Africa’s true size.

Africa’s economy is projected to be worth more than $16 trillion by 2050, nearly 10% of global GDP, up from just 3% today. By ...

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

Criticism of the Mercator map is not new, but the 'Correct The Map' campaign – led by advocacy groups Africa No Filter and ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a change-the-map campaign in April. “When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted map, they ...

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 ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another explains that mathematically, it is impossible to have one accurate flat map.