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

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

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

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

The African Union's recent support for alternatives to the Mercator projection challenges historical cartographic distortions that misrepresent Africa's size.

Criticism of the Mercator map is not new, but the 'Correct The Map' campaign – led by advocacy groups Africa No Filter and ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

The Mercator map, created by Gerardus Mercator back in 1569, has been noted for its size exaggerations of continents in the northern hemisphere, including a North America and Europe that are ...

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

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

Google has created a doodle to mark the 503rd birthday of Gerardus Mercator. The internet giant has devised one of its iconic illustrations to commemorate the day on which the famous European ...