A border denotes a mental map: a physical and political fact, dividing homeland from barbarians and dragons. All human history, the Book of Genesis tells us, takes place beyond the first border ...

A distorted world view that downplays Africa’s economic, cultural, and political importance. Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa are launching the Correct the Map campaign to put an end to this ...

like the coastal plain, the Galilee and the West Bank, it's impossible to tell from this map whether "Jewish land" refers to land owned by Jews or land under Israeli/Jewish political control.

Updated July 4, 2014, 12:45 PM The partitioning of Africa by European empires has had devastating social, economic, political and psychological ... to inspire a new map. Conservationists currently ...

But, in reality, three Canadas would comfortably fit inside Africa. Our world map is wildly misleading. It’s all down to the European cartographer Geert de Kremer, better known as Mercator ...

Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...