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

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

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

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

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

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

The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

The African Union and campaigners want Africa's map to be corrected to its true size after years of distortion ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...