The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

For centuries, the familiar Mercator world map has quietly distorted Africa's size and significance. Now, a coalition of ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

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

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of ...

The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical ...

The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real ...

As a world map, it's not that it's bad, it's just not nearly as good as others (Robinson, Winkel-Tripel, or Eckert IV come to mind) for showing the globe as a single and relatively undistorted image.