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 ...
When a child opens a world atlas, they deserve the truth—not illusion. For centuries, however, geography lessons have been ...
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 ...
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 ...
Africa is the second largest continent, after Asia. According to paleoanthropologists (One who studies the human fossils scientifically), Africa is the oldest territory of the Earth where the human ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...