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

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

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger.

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

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

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 ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...

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

The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...

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

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays ...