The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The Geographical Journal has been published since 1831, and was the Society's journal of report until the relaunch in 2000. It has the highest circulation of any British academic journal in its field ...

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 ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

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 ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

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 ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it seem smaller ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A classic exercise in geography consists of explaining the levels of economic development achieved by different regions with respect to their ...

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 ...