The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to ...

When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s projection, the idea was that ships could use the lines of longitude and latitude as a from of navigation. The flat map ...

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 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 ...

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

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

Think ‘world map’ and your mind probably jumps to the elliptical Winkel tripel projection, often seen in textbooks and incorporated in world news logos. It’s pretty ubiquitous, but is just ...

The traditional world map, known as the Mercator projection, seriously messes up the size of countries.