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

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

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

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

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

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 ...

These are some of the newest countries on the map, with one of the newest only being established in 2011.

And now we’re closer to it, thanks to a map created by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) that rates food sustainability for different countries around the world.