The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

The African Union and campaigners want Africa's map to be corrected to its true size after years of distortion ...

The distortion has even influenced political perceptions of Trump, who once eyed buying Greenland, misled by maps showing it ...

Gerardus Mercator (1512-94), a mathematician and engraver, created the map in 1569 to help sailors navigate their way around ...