The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real ...

For decades, schoolchildren across Africa have stared at classroom walls decorated with a world map that tells a subtle but powerful lie. On that map—the ...

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

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

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

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

The distortion has even influenced political perceptions of Trump, who once eyed buying Greenland, misled by maps showing it ...

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

The African Union has backed mounting calls to discontinue the Mercator map, which inaccurately shrinks Africa’s true ...

The 1569 Mercator map did not merely misrepresent Africa’s size—it mutilated its dignity and incapacitated its destiny. From ...