Update: A professor who studies race and ethnic conflict responds to this map. Ethnicity, like race, is a social construct, but it's still a construct with significant implications for the world ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

The size-comparison map tool that's available on mylifeelsewhere.com offers a geography lesson like no other, enabling users to places maps of countries directly over other landmasses.

The usual suspects lead the list of culturally diverse countries: Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These and other African countries typically rank high on any ...

Alima has started a campaign, “Oxygen for Africa,” to raise money to send about 500 concentrators to six poor countries, Jennifer Lazuta, a spokeswoman, said.

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 the ...

If you can't see the maps, click here Greenland measures just 2,166,086 square kilometers (sq km), whereas Africa spans ...

It’s one of the enduring mysteries of covid-19: Why didn’t the pandemic hit low-income African nations as hard as wealthy countries in North America and Europe? There is no simple answer to ...

There's a marvellous passage at the very beginning of Karen Blixen's novel Out of Africa in which she describes her feelings on being in Africa. Many of us remember this passage for its stunning ...

Redditor reddripper put together this excellent map of what "the beautiful game" is called around the world. It's based on language etymologies. All the pink countries call it "football," or some ...

The size-comparison map tool that's available on mylifeelsewhere.com offers a geography lesson like no other, enabling users to places maps of countries directly over other landmasses.