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

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 over five centuries, a single version of the world map has shaped our perception of geography. The Mercator projection, ...

The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...

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

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

There are growing calls from African nations for the international community to adopt maps that accurately reflect the true ...

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, ‘Africa No Filter’ and ‘Speak Up Africa’, launched a “Change the Map” campaign in April.

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

FILE - Soldiers look at a world map as they wait to board a flight in Manas, Kyrgyzstan, on the way home after completing a deployment in Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/David Goldman, ...