Picture this: over a century ago, in the stately halls of Berlin, seven European powers, Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, gathered to carve up Africa with rulers and pens ...

Looking at a world map feels simple. Each country seems to sit neatly on one continent. But geography loves surprises. Some countries stretch across t.

On many world maps, Greenland and Africa can look almost the same size. But the reality is very different. Africa covers an ...

Rabat, Jan 22, MAP/GNA – By enthusiastically hosting the 35th Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON-2025), Morocco is “proud to have ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is on a decadeslong project to walk from East Africa to South America. In his 13 ...

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National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is on a decadeslong project to walk from East Africa to South America. In his 13 years on the road so far, he’s been stopped by law enforcement 120 times.

An analysis led by the University of Leicester shows that the African continent lost around 106 billion kilograms of forest biomass each year between 2010 and 2017. New research suggests that Africa’s ...

The world's largest island has its own system of fjords, lakes and black-sand beaches. What to know about the size of the ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory much larger than it is.