Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Create a map of the physical geography of Africa using the locations in the ... relevant for teaching Geography at KS3 in England and Northern Ireland, 3rd/4th Level in Scotland and Progression ...

For decades, geography teachers have relied on a more than 400-year-old map that grossly distorts ... around the country portray North America as larger than Africa (but it’s not) and Alaska ...

Designed for 16th-century maritime navigation, the map artificially enlarges Global North regions while ... to using maps that depict Africa’s true size. “Geography has history.

This clip will be relevant for teaching Geography at KS3 in England and Northern Ireland ... help teach the following: Using maps of the world to focus on Africa, focusing on the environmental ...

There was, of course, much to map in Africa, too, but that mattered less to the cartographers up north, he adds. One of the dangers of the Mercator map is that it can make enlarged countries seem ...

and North America. Nations are also depicted inaccurately on Mercator Projection maps, including Greenland, which looks nearly the size of Africa on Mercator Projection maps when in reality the ...