The African Union endorses the #CorrectTheMap campaign to promote accurate representation of Africa's size on world maps, ...

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

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a modern map that shows Africa’s true size.

Apartheid geography was so finely designed that even the black area is sub-divided between a so-called colored township – common South African parlance for people of mixed racial heritage ...

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W. D. Cooley's merits as a geographer, and even his founding of the Hakluyt Society, have been largely forgotten. He is noticed, if at all, as the most notorious of the 'armchair geographers' who ...

The World Americans Don’t Know Anything About African Geography, and That’s a Problem By Joshua Keating Nov 04, 201412:15 PM ...

Maarten Bosker, Harry Garretsen, Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2012), pp. 443-485 ...