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

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

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

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

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

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

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

Claudius Ptolemy, World Map, 150 AD Al-Sharif al-Idrisi, World Map, 1154 Richard of Haldingham, Mappa-mundi, 1300 The Yu Ji Tu, 1137 Martin Waldseemüller's Universal Cosmography, ...