New research from the Future Ecosystems for Africa program at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has ...

The map, from Exploring Africa, has colour-coded each language ... Afro-Asiatic language family and is particularly common in northern Nigeria, as well as parts of Cameroon, Chad and Ghana.

DON'T MISS: In addition to distorting Africa's size, Mercator's map also significantly enlarges North America and Europe. Other distorted sizes include Russia and China, which seem to occupy about ...

Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes detailed representations of parts of Northern Africa. His work is significant not only ...

Greenland is just 2,166,086 square kilometres (sq km), whereas Africa is 30,043,862 sq km. However, flat maps show something ... which dominates most of the northern hemisphere, they are fairly ...

This incredible map reveals the newly-discovered ... our study confirms there was a well-trodden passage to the north, across the only land-route from Africa to Eurasia. 'Our newly published ...

When you look at a map of the world, it makes sense to assume that Greenland and Africa are similar in size. But in reality, the African continent is 14 times as big as the icy northern land mass.

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 ... to fight an insurgency in northern Mozambique.

A recent study has mapped the locations of 9.9 billion trees across Africa’s drylands, a region below the Sahara Desert and north of the equator ... more than any other map for this region ...

Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be compared with strontium levels measured in human remains to more ...