A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

In Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, English is the de facto language, while the remaining 56* official anglophone countries include clusters in the Caribbean (Barbados, the Bahamas ...

It also risks creating a continuous climate of insecurity along Africa's eastern shores. Indeed, this corridor now affects not only Somalia and Sudan, but also a broader geography including Chad, ...

Ogundairo believes the commonly used Mercator map affects Africa and Africans negatively ... but it’s terrible for scale,” geography professor Lindsay Frederick Braun of the University of Oregon said ...

Quixto, a new AI-powered platform, helps users explore developments across Africa through an interactive map and real-time news analysis. Developed by Cape Town-based Predix Communications, it is ...

DAKAR, Senegal, 7 April 2025-/African Media Agency(AMA)/- For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world maps—has ...

As of 2022, Nigeria accounted for around a quarter of the total languages spoken in Africa with 520. According to the map, the most popular languages spoken there are Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo.

A breakthrough algorithm helps scientists track human DNA changes across regions. Credit: vediphile / CC BY-SA 4.0 Researchers have developed an algorithm that maps shared ancestry across geography ...

AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very ...

This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Taking what it can get” Middle East & Africa March 8th 2025 ...

At the same time as Harrison was working on his maps, Nicolas J. Spykman was coming to similar conclusions, which he laid out in his last book, The Geography of the Peace, in 1944. For Spykman, the ...