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

How much power lies in a map? The push to replace the ‘distorted’ Mercator projection with a more accurate map that portrays ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in. Please visit My ...

Scientists have drilled down into the Antarctic ice sheet, largely in an attempt to understand the Earth's past climate. The ...

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

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...

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

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 ...

The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The African Union supports a campaign to replace the centuries-old Mercator map, which underrepresents the continent, with ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...