For centuries, the familiar Mercator world map has quietly distorted Africa's size and significance. Now, a coalition of ...

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

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of ...

A view shows the city of Nuuk, Greenland, February 9, 2025. Greenland is still pretty big. Depending on how you define its political status, it's around the 12th largest nation in the world.

The African Union (AU) has endorsed a campaign for the worldwide adoption of the ‘correct’ map of the continent that ...