African advocacy organizations have initiated a paradigm shift by initiating a resulting campaign to replace the twisted Mercator map that distorts the African continent by 14 times to be replaced by ...

An overhead view of the East African Rift, with a river in a cultivated valley flanked by steep cliffs A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression — ...

Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly ...

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 ...

The maps of the world you’ve been looking at all your life are wrong and should be replaced, according to a group promoting a new map that more accurately shows Africa as the second largest continent.

The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...

We’ve pulled together eight maps that put Africa’s population, income, growth, and potential into context. 1. Where the world’s 7 billion live National Geographic‘s map illustrates where and how the ...

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 ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, ...