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

Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is spread across three of the major lines of latitude ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...