The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

The Mercator map, they argue, inflates North America and Europe while shrinking Africa, reinforcing a Western-centric view of the world that sidelines the continent and downplays its global ...

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