Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...

An overhead view of the East African Rift, with a river in a cultivated valley flanked by steep cliffs A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression — ...

This is believed to be the first map of Africa, as a continent. “Africa” was originally a Roman term for the region of modern Tunisia and the western portion of Libya. The Arabs later adopted a ...

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 African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

Which continent is called the Dark Continent? Learn why Africa got this name, the history behind it in detail. Also learn ...

VICENZA, Italy -- Nearly 50 Soldiers and civilians of the U.S. Army Africa's G-6 ensure the unit has internet and telephone service. They also help people assigned to USARAF map to the right printer, ...