Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

The African Union's recent support for alternatives to the Mercator projection challenges historical cartographic distortions ...

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

'Correct The Map' wants organisations like the World Bank and the United Nations to adopt the Equal Earth map. A World Bank ...

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

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

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

Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South ...

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