For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

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

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 map created in the 16th century enlarges ...

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

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

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

The maps of the world you’ve been looking at all your life are wrong and should be replaced, according to a group promoting a new map that more accurately shows Africa as the second largest continent.

The African Union supports a campaign to replace the centuries-old Mercator map, which underrepresents the continent, with ...