The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its significance.

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

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days.

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...