The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to ...

The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical ...

The Mercator Map Projection with the true size and shape of the country overlaid. Credit: Neil Kaye/@neilrkaye ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland 's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map.

Some projections show areas accurately but distort distances or scales, for example; others preserve the shapes of countries but misrepresent their areas.

The pink shape is Africa, while the purple represents Greenland. On the Mercator map, shown below, Greenland appears almost the same size as Africa.