Rayno Nel is the first African to win the prestigious title of World's Strongest Man. Their neighbours, who raise livestock, told the family to get rid of the wild animal. Thousands of mourners fill ...

When a child opens a world atlas, they deserve the truth—not illusion. For centuries, however, geography lessons have been ...

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 ...

Rivers that don’t connect, coasts that resist trade, and deserts that divide—Africa’s geography shaped its fate in ways the world still feels. Trump is on a collision course with Ireland – and it ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper is a keynote address delivered by the author at the Geography Workshop organised by the Organisation of Social Science Research in ...

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 true proportions, ...

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 different ...