The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.

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

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 ...

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...