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

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...

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

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

The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical ...

The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real ...

The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...

The Mercator projection is still common in classrooms and tech platforms. Google Maps dropped the widely used projection for a 3D globe on desktop in 2018, but users can switch back to the old map.