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 ...

Open up a world map and trace the borders of South Africa. Right in its eastern midsection, completely surrounded by South African territory, sits a giant, sovereign gap. This is Lesotho. It is not a ...

One of the events that left the deepest, most enduring spatial and psychological legacy scars on the African continent was ...

Explore our Grasslands Map with National Geographic.

Since the dawn of history, Egypt’s geography has never been merely a set of borders drawn on maps. Rather, it has been a destiny written by the waters of the Nile. Egypt is a precious part of Africa’s ...

With direct flights between Perth and Johannesburg, and one-stop flights to north Africa, there are many reasons to visit, ...

Hosted by Simon Reeve, Around the World in 80 Ways is a geography quiz where two teams race across the world, travelling from ...

Gauteng Geographical Names Committee (GGNC) Every July, South Africans reflect on the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela.

Most of us can instantly recognize continents by their outlines on a world map. But what if you only see a part of a ...

Is that one there?” Kaggie Orrick, a National Geographic Explorer and conservation scientist, asks from the passenger’s seat of the truck. She and her colleague and collaborator Malia Byrtus — a ...

In schools across the country, geography has often been folded into other subjects. Even so, the facts we learned about ...

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2027? Check your progress and revise your topics through this quiz on Environment and ...