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

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

The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical ...

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of ...

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

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

African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

Many world maps use the Mercator projection, created in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation. While ...

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...

The colonial-era Mercator map distorts continental size, making Africa look smaller than it is. The 55-nation African Union ...