Created in 1569 by Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator, the world map commonly used today "did a good job" of depicting the ...

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

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 ...

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

The African Union has backed mounting calls to discontinue the Mercator map, which inaccurately shrinks Africa’s true ...

The 1569 Mercator map did not merely misrepresent Africa’s size—it mutilated its dignity and incapacitated its destiny. From ...

“It might seem to be just a map, but in reality, it is not,” AU Commission deputy chairperson Selma Malika Haddadi told ...

The campaign to correct the map is led by the advocacy groups Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa that urge organisations to ...

The African Union backs a campaign to replace the Mercator map with a more accurate projection that reflects Africa’s true size and global significance.