The most commonly used world map could soon get a revamp to show the true scale of the African continent. The African Union ...

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

The AU’s concerns are hardly new. In the 1970s and 1980s, the same debate raged fiercely until it was resolved in favor of ...

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

The African Union is now supporting the Correct the Map campaign for an “Equal Earth” alternative, which “shows the continent ...

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

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

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

Criticism of the Mercator map is not new, but the 'Correct The Map' campaign – led by advocacy groups Africa No Filter and ...

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

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...