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

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

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

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 ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it seem smaller. The Mercator map created in the 16th century enlarges ...

Today's most-used map was designed for maritime navigation by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It focused on ...

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

How much power lies in a map? The push to replace the ‘distorted’ Mercator projection with a more accurate map that portrays ...

Michigan native, Janice Williams is a graduate of Oakland University where she studied journalism and communication. Upon relocating to New York City, she held internships at celebrity news-focused ...

CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...