A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated ...

The British colonization of Africa reshaped an entire continent - politically, economically, and culturally. In this video, I ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released Africa's first high-resolution rice distribution map, featuring a resolution ...

Here is a map of the countries on the new list now under review in Washington. US President Donald Trump is looking to expand restrictions on entry to the US with a potential ban on citizens from up ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When South Africa’s apartheid ended, I was in my mid-twenties. Only a fool would have denied then that the ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

He also gave the map a visual overhaul, introducing a much wider range of colours and symbols to bring the street plans to life. The end results are maps of Tudor and medieval London far more ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

COLUMN: 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.

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...

Portraying China’s presence in Africa with flags on maps can distort African states’ sovereignty and their power to make decisions based on national interests.