The African Union says the Mercator projection distorts Africa’s size and identity—and it’s pushing a new map to set the ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

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

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

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

Most continents are more than just their cratons, so we know that the continents didn't form all at once in the early history of the Earth. You can check out a map of the world's cratons below to get ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

Scientists studying the lost continent of Zealandia have produced a series of detailed maps that show the continent sitting beneath the ocean surface. Zealandia is a huge underwater landmass ...

These 7 realms reveal how life itself draws the map.

Our planet is made of continents and that makes us the oddball of the solar system. No other planet has continents like we do ... and it is unclear why.