The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays ...

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

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

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 ...

Newsweek has created a map showing which countries make the most semiconductors around the world amid Donald Trump's expected tariff rate announcement on them. Japan, the United States and China have ...

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