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 ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations 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 and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

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

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

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

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

Smallest country in Europe is Vatican City, a tiny sovereign state in Rome. Check out a list of other small European ...