The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally ... Bojan Savric and Bernhard Jenny launched the Equal Earth projection in 2018. It makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...