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

The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...

Ghanaian policy analyst Bright Simons says the continent needs more than a larger size on maps to "earn global respect". "South Korea, no matter how Mercator renders it, has almost the same GDP as all ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our ...