Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

The African Union and campaigners want Africa's map to be corrected to its true size after years of distortion THE MOTHERLAND: Africa's size has been distorted on maps used globally and campaigners ...

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 ...

16:18, Mon, Aug 25, 2025 Updated: 16:51, Mon, Aug 25, 2025 Several African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn, as it makes the continent seem much smaller compared to some others. The ...