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

The African Union backs a campaign to replace the Mercator map with a more accurate projection that reflects Africa’s true ...

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

The 1569 Mercator map did not merely misrepresent Africa’s size—it mutilated its dignity and incapacitated its destiny. From ...

The African Union has backed mounting calls to discontinue the Mercator map, which inaccurately shrinks Africa’s true ...

For centuries, Africa has been systematically erased through the hegemonic Western cartographic gaze, its territorial ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays ...

Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South ...

Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes Caption: Map of Africa on Google maps. Catarina Demony. AyenDeng Bior. Reuters ...

Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South ...

LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) -The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that ...