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 ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator map with one that accurately reflects Africa’s true size Advocates say the centuries-old projection misrepresents Africa, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from ...

African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...

This post originally appeared on Global Citizen. In the last 500 years, a certain kind of map has been used to teach children about our planet. But public schools in Boston have made a big change — ...