The continent of Africa looks different depending on which calculations you choose to make a three dimensional reality into a ...

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

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, Africa appears smaller than it is. In a bid to depict the continent's relative ...

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

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of the continent and its size. Mercator projection Equal Earth projection ...

Thanks to its proximity to Europe’s coastline, North Africa is destined to collaborate with NATO, but not to join it – a distinction that frequently generates friction. The North Atlantic Treaty ...

For over five centuries, a single version of the world map has shaped our perception of geography. The Mercator projection, ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

Ancient North Africa and its expansive civilizations -- Rome and North Africa -- Medieval North Africa: from the arrival of Islam to the Berber empires -- Almoravid and the Almohad empires and their ...