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

“The World in Maps 1400–1600” features some of the library’s most impressive and historically important maps from the late Medieval and Early Modern periods.

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

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 ...

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

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...