Gerardus Mercator

The True Size Of: An Interactive Map That Reveals the Real Size of Countries

Rethinking the World Map

Map projections: The African Union vs the Gerardus Mercator standard

Why Does Greenland Look So Big on Some Maps? | Mercator Projection, Robinson, & Comparison

How Mercator the mapmaker ushered in the age of exploration

Is the World's Most Popular Map Wrong?

‘Correcting The Map’: reshaping perceptions of Africa

African Union Backs Equal Earth Map To Correct Centuries Of Distorted Views Of Africa

Equal Earth Map Better Represents Africa than Mercator

Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

Africa is much bigger than most maps show, and a new campaign wants that fixed

African Union endorses campaign to finally fix the maps that massively understate how big the continent really is

African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size

Africa Is Big, and It Wants the World’s Maps to Show It

A whole new world: redrawing the Mercator map

Gerardus Mercator: Why the 16th century Fleming cartographer is in the African Union’s crosshairs

African Union takes up fight to correct Mercator map

"Correct The Map": African Union denounces map that shrinks Africa

Africa wants new map to represent continent’s impact on the world

African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size