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 has joined a campaign urging global institutions to adopt a map of Africa that more accurately reflects the continent’s size. The Mercator map, widely used since 1599, shows a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The African Union (AU) has backed a campaign to end the use of a 16th-century map in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size. The Mercator projection of the world distorts the sizes ...

South African Tourism, in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, has developed a Mandela-inspired tourist map that highlights many of the sites that defined Mandela’s life. The map will take ...