The African Union says the Mercator projection distorts Africa’s size and identity—and it’s pushing a new map to set the record straight.

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

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

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

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

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

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

Image Represents One of the First-Ever Maps of the World Anaximander's map was said to have been made between 2,500 and 2,600 years ago.

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?