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

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

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 ...

Crisscrossed by rail-straight lines that correspond to constant compass bearings, the Mercator projection was ideal for navigation in the age of sail, at the expense of showing the actual size of ...

Campaigners want to change the world map to show Africa is bigger - Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it seem small ...

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

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

New analysis of street-level data across sub-Saharan Africa shows how access to infrastructure dramatically improves the ...