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

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

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 ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

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

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 ...

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

The 55-nation alliance wants the world to adopt a new map that shows the relative size of the continents more accurately.

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The Texas map drafted in rare mid-decade redistricting prompted fierce protests from Democrats and sparked a gerrymandering ...