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The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

No, Saudi Arabia is not close to Fresno, England is not close to Thailand and Sweden and Switzerland are not the same country ...

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Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

The rendering of America and Africa in Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map (Wikimedia Commons) In June 2012, Brian McClendon, an executive at Google, announced that Google Maps and Google Earth were ...

For over five centuries, a single version of the world map has shaped our perception of geography. The Mercator projection, ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a campaign to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the continent’s relative size than the one currently adorning most geography-class walls.

Political geography has been transformed from "moribund backwater" to being one of the major growth areas of geography in the 1980's. In its reconstruction it illustrates the fundamental debate ...

Forget boring capitals and classroom map drills - this is geography with a twist.From pyramids in China to countries that ...

Discover the 5 smallest seas in the world, their locations, sizes, and interesting facts. Learn key historical significance ...