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

Africa is putting its foot down when it comes to the Mercator projection map, the most widely used representation of the ...

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

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a modern map that shows Africa’s true size.

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another explains that mathematically, it is impossible to have one accurate flat map.