The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

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

Crisscrossed by rail-straight lines that correspond to constant compass bearings, the Mercator projection was ideal for navigation in the age of sail, at the expense of showing the actual size of ...

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 ...

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

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

An early 20th century world map using the Mercator projection, which critics say exaggerates the size of regions near the poles like Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America. African ...

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been refiled to clarify the number of AU member states in paragraph 3) The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments ...