On the Mercator map, Africa – sitting on the equator ... maps are being introduced around the world too. In the US and Germany, for example, maps based on the so-called Winkel Tripel projection ...

A French map of Africa, c. 1911 (PD). By the time World War I broke out, Britain and France collectively controlled 45% of Africa’s population. Germany, late to the show, held on to 9%.

It is part of an exhibition drawing attention to the history of South Africa and the way it is perceived around the world. The Chinese map, covering more than 17 square metres, was produced in silk.

An incredible map shows the “true” size of Africa with China ... Papua New Guinea, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, New Zealand, the UK, Nepal, Bangladesh and Greece put together.

Please note and enjoy the newest features on the Africa Command website: Interactive Africa Map: An interactive map of the African continent allows users to obtain information about individual ...

“Africa” was originally a Roman term for the region of modern Tunisia and the western portion of Libya. The Arabs later adopted a similar definition. But this is the first known map of the new ...

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 ...

Created using data from the Sentinel-2A satellite, the map reveals Africa at a resolution of 20m per pixel and comprises 180,000 images representing 90TB of data. Land-cover mapping breaks down ...

It is also a worrying sign that M23’s patron, Rwanda, may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region ... Sign up to the Analysing Africa, a weekly newsletter that keeps ...