That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

How distorting are map projections? Here’s what four commonly used systems of projection do to a human head. From the 1921 publication Elements in Map Projection comes this striking ...

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

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

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

The African Union says the Mercator projection distorts Africa’s size and identity—and it’s pushing a new map to set the record straight.

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

The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...

Policy analyst Bright Simons has questioned the African Union’s (AU) call for the world to ditch the Mercator map projection, arguing that the bloc often pursues geo-politics without the matching ...

Analysis - The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global ...