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.

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Mercator map, created in 1569, is still largely used today but land masses closer to the ...

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Crisscrossed by rail-straight lines that correspond to constant compass bearings, the Mercator projection was ideal for navigation in the age of sail, at the expense of showing the actual size of ...

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

Maps hold power. For millennia, the borders and place names represented on world maps signify who claims or possesses control of a geographic region. Through colonization, violent conquest or ...

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

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the ...