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

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

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

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

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

The African Union backs a campaign to replace the Mercator map with a more accurate projection that reflects Africa’s true ...

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

Gerardus Mercator (1512-94), a mathematician and engraver, created the map in 1569 to help sailors navigate their way around ...

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

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

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

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