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

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

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

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 ...

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 endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

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

African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...

The African Union has voiced support for the adoption of a map that more accurately displays the real size of Africa. Also, ...

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

He said he created this map to help people understand the true size of the world by using it in school lessons.

Maps are deceptively complicated things — after all, they require someone to take a 3D object (aka the Earth) and represent it in only two dimensions — and often, this means that the relative ...