On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But ...

The AU’s concerns are hardly new. In the 1970s and 1980s, the same debate raged fiercely until it was resolved in favor of ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world, in favour of one that ...

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

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

IRAQ: Iraq announced this week that work has begun to excavate a sinkhole that the so-called Islamic State (IS) is believed ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

Xi Jinping, China’s leader, made a tightly choreographed trip to Lhasa yesterday, his first since 2021 to the capital of Tibet. The visit reflected the Chinese leadership’s concern with redoubling ...

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

If we want to understand why world maps have long been based on inaccurate assumptions, we need to look at the Mercator Projection. Dating to 1569, it was created by renowned Flemish cartographer ...