The intersection of the Equator and the Prime Meridian lands somewhere west of the coast of Africa, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. These are coordinates (0,0) in map coordinates system WGS84 ...

Called the AuthaGraph, the result is a world map that looks a little different than most of us are used to. Seen in rectangular form, Antarctica is intact and at the bottom right. The Americas and ...

True-Scale Map Comparing Russia to Africa Blows People's Minds. Published Mar 14, 2022 at 10:18 AM EDT. ... However, as the outline is dragged down towards the continent of Africa and the equator, ...

The city of Liverpool, for example, is 53 degrees and 24 minutes north of the Equator (0° latitude) written as 53°24'N, and 2 degrees and 58 minutes west of the Prime Meridian (0° longitude ...

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 ...

A new kind of world map (above) has been developed that shows the true size of the continents without distorting their shapes too much. The world map you are probably familiar with is called the ...

Once called the Prime Meridian of the World, the invisible line running north to south that divides the world into Eastern and Western hemispheres passed through the Airy Transit Circle — a 19th ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.