The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

There are growing calls from African nations for the international community to adopt maps that accurately reflect the true ...

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

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

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