Few countries rival South Africa’s diversity. From vast deserts and rugged mountain ranges to fertile coasts and tropical ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in the north, to the Cape region in the south. I’m Chioma, and I’m standing ...

THE publication of this little text-book in Macmillan's Geographical Series will be welcomed by all who are interested in geographical education, or who desire a handly and trustworthy compendium on ...

If you think about Africa, you maybe think of a very hot and dry place. But the climate and weather on this great continent is amazingly varied.The Sahara desert can often reach temperatures of fifty ...

W. D. Cooley's merits as a geographer, and even his founding of the Hakluyt Society, have been largely forgotten. He is noticed, if at all, as the most notorious of the 'armchair geographers' who ...

A leading exam board has been slammed after a GCSE geography paper wrongly named countries on a map of Africa. One enraged teacher said that his pupils were left confused after the map wrongly ...

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

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