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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Many world maps use the Mercator projection, created in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation. While ...

The world maps that we often see on a daily basis are drawn using the Mercator projection , which was announced by geographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569, and has the characteristic that the higher ...