The Mercator map makes Africa look smaller than it is, as a push for more accurate maps asks us to rethink how we see the ...

When a Trump administration official presented a cringingly erroneous map of Africa at a global conference last month, the blunder gave fresh momentum to a campaign for an accurate world map that ...

The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...

Africa is much larger than it appears on many familiar world maps. That is because the maps we have grown up seeing often distort the relative size of continents, making regions closer to the poles ...

For generations, schools, media outlets and decision-makers have relied on a familiar world map. It has become a global standard, seen everywhere from classroom posters to government buildings. But ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

Robert Dussey, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Togo, introduces the "Correct the map" draft resolution. Africa is much larger than it appears on many familiar world maps. That is because the maps we ...