Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...

LAST month Kai Krause, a computer-graphics guru, caused a stir with a map entitled "The True Size of Africa", which showed the outlines of other countries crammed into the outline of the African ...

It would, however, have probably made the map more useful if the 8000-feet line had been selected, ... Bathy-orographical Map of Africa. 1–8,400,000.

By the time the outline of Russia is placed on the equator, it is significantly smaller than it appeared at first and is dwarfed by the continent of Africa. The video amassed thousands of comments.

An incredible map shows the "true" size of Africa with China, India and America all fitting inside. The continent is 30.37 million km² and covers 20 percent of the planet's land area and six ...

In the last 500 years, a certain kind of map has been used to teach children about our planet. But public schools in Boston have made a big change — and it might alter the way you think about the ...