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

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, Africa appears smaller than it is. In a bid to depict the continent's relative ...

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of ...

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

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively working" on promoting a curriculum across the continent that uses the ...

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

Fourteen Greenlands would easily fit inside the African continent. So why do they look the same size on most maps?

Russia has occupied a fifth of Ukrainian territory - and a big map showing the area shaded in red was put up in the Oval ...