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 ...

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 ...

Most of Africa is north of the ... as shown by the dotted line on this map. Courtesy John Nelson, Esri People also tend to keep their mental maps simple by aligning them with the four cardinal ...

Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be compared with strontium levels measured in human remains to more ...