Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in ...

Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Text, with colored map and illustrations, show Africa's wildlife and biological geography. Insets: Cape Verde -- Seychelles -- Mauritius -- [location map].

The stunning entry was selected from 25,023 photographs which aimed to offer a new perspective on the continent. The Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2021 was Hannes Lochner. A lion cub ...

History is often taught as if the mapping of the world began with Europe—Renaissance portolan charts, Mercator projections, imperial surveys—while Africa appears as an unmapped space, known only once ...

Africa is not happy with how Google Maps portrays it. The popular Mercator map projection, used by Google Maps and many other online maps, distorts the size of landmasses, making Africa look small ...