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

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 ...

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.

There are growing calls from African nations for the international community to adopt maps that accurately reflect the true ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the ...

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

Biblical archaeologists are using ancient texts and modern technology to uncover possible clues to one of Christianity's ...