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

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

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

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

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 ...

For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination of President Donald Trump. But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of ...