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

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

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

The African Union urges global use of accurate map projections, challenging Mercator’s distortion of Africa’s true size and ...

On the Mercator projection, one of the world's most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their true ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

THE problem of reducing the sphere to a plane surface has ever been a difficulty. This realisation has led cartographers to adopt the policy of constructing a map for a specific purpose. The most ...