An African initiative, "Correct the Map," led by groups like Speak Up Africa and Africa No Filter, is pushing for new world maps that accurately depict Africa's true size. For centuries, the widely used Mercator map has distorted the continent, making it appear significantly smaller than it is.

• Africa is more than seven times bigger than the European Union, contrary to the Mercator map's depiction.
• Speak Up Africa co-founder Fara Ndiaye emphasized that the Mercator map has "minimised Africa, feeding into a narrative that the continent is smaller, peripheral and less important."
• The Equal Earth projection, launched in 2018 by cartographers Tom Patterson, Bojan Savric, and Bernhard Jenny, is endorsed by the African Union for its accurate representation of continental sizes.