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

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 ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...