A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish ...

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 ...

Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in countries' sizing ... appears to be about the same size as Africa on the map, but in reality, the ...

Map of countries in Africa with background shading indicating approximate relative density of human populations (data from the Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project) Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

but it distorts the size of countries and continents. For example, when compared to a globe, the island of Greenland at the top of the map appears much bigger and the continent of Africa appears ...