In Mr Krause's map (above) he seems to have used the shapes of the countries from a Mercator projection, but has scaled up the outline of Africa, without changing its shape, to show the ...

Facebook is trying to help change that by creating a high-resolution population density map for nearly the entire continent of Africa. Developed by the company’s Boston-based World.AI team, it ...

Use a large outline map of the continent and ask pupils to add drawings or images of physical features such as deserts, rivers, mountains and lakes. Use atlases to help with this.

So Greenland is 14 times smaller than Africa on the globe, and it’s also 14 times smaller on the Equal Earth map.” Jenny said the team never set out specifically to correct some of the most ...