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 ...

Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...

The South African Internet map was launched in August, which provides an overview of the largest websites in South Africa. The SA Internet Map is available here. Every website is a circle on the map, ...