1450 Map of the World by Venetian monk Fra Mauro. The map depicts Asia, Africa and Europe

#15th_century, #africa, #asia, #europe, #italy

1853 Japanese World Map

#19th_century, #africa, #asia, #australia, #belize, #british_empire, #canada, #captain_cook, #colombia, #japan, #korea, #maritime, #north_america, #oceania, #pacific, #united_kingdom, #united_states, #us_states, #washington

A face made from African Heads of State

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1885 Map of Africa - by Hermann Habenicht

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Japanese map of Africa, 1869

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Separated at birth : South America and Africa with switched borders

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River Basins of Africa in Rainbow Colours

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Ottoman map of Africa (1803)

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The Only 22 Countries in the World Britain Has Not Invaded (not shown: Sao Tome and Principe)

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Southern Africa military map from 1900, showing British, Dutch and Portuguese territories ; as well as the Boer Republics - the South African Republic and the Orange Free State

#19th_century, #africa, #netherlands, #south_africa, #united_kingdom

Africa and South America with switched borders

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Found an old atlas at my grandaunts home: Every country of Africa is colonized, except Ethiopia. orange=German, red=English, brown=French, dark green=Italian, Green=Italian,... Andrees Handatlas 1914.

#20th_century, #africa, #ethiopia, #france, #germany, #italy

Africa 1899 (published 1906)

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1865 Physical Map of Africa

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Map of Western Africa by Lázaro Luis (1563)

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Map of Africa, published by Abraham Ortellius in 1588. A sea battle is depicted in cartouche in the lower right corner, and a number a sea monsters roam the Atlantic Ocean

#16th_century, #africa, #atlantic

The True Size of Somalia

#africa, #arab_world, #somalia

Exaggerated Relief Map of southern Africa - at night

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Africa at the start of the First World War (1914)

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Cairo, Egypt in the 16th century - by Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis

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Language Map of Africa (1883)

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1541 world map reduced from that of Waldseemüller (1513), onto which Fries has added the five kings of Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka (Taprobana), and Thailand (Mursuli), along with a mammoth in the upper left corner near Greenland (which is depicted as a peninsula).

#16th_century, #africa, #arab_world, #asia, #egypt, #ethiopia, #greenland, #russia, #sri_lanka, #thailand

Belgian Congo in 1896 – six years after Joseph Conrad took the trip that inspired Heart of Darkness

#19th_century, #africa, #belgium, #congo

1595 map of Africa

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Physical Wall Map of Africa (1900)

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1611 Map of Africa , southwest Europe, southern Asia, 'Terra Incognita" and the eastern bit of Brazil

#17th_century, #africa, #asia, #brazil, #europe, #south_america

1632 map of the Holy Land by the Jesuit monk Jacobus Tirinus. Oriented to the east, map depicts from Syria and Tyre southward as far as the Sinai, Egypt and Thebes

#17th_century, #africa, #arab_world, #asia, #egypt, #greece, #syria

Map of Rodrigues, Mauritius by François Leguat, 1708

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I made a 3D topographic wood map of Africa

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I drew a map of the pre-Roman peoples of Western Europe and North Africa!

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Maps from 1858 made by Antonio Snider-Pellegrini - depicting his interpretation of how the American and African continents may once have fit together before becoming separated

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Egypt, 1905

#20th_century, #africa, #arab_world, #egypt

City plan for the proposed redevelopment of Juba, South Sudan

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Smith, c. 1839 "Map of Africa..."

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1745 Map of Africa by Guillaume Delisle x-post /r/HI_Res

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1689 Map of Africa

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Switching Borders: Africa and South America

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1839 Mitchell Map of Africa

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Africa 1740

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1895 map of Madagascar

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Country names in Africa that used to mean something else

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Africa 1910

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Colonizability of Africa by J. G. Bartholomew (1899)

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1957 National Geographic Map of Africa

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Early 15th century Borgia world map. Africa is at the top of the map, with Europe at the bottom right

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European colonies in Africa in 1913. Lines reflect current borders

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1571 Africa Map by Abraham Ortelius

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Mosaic of Africa using over 7,000 satellite images

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My hand drawn flag map of Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa

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From Oil to Gold to Diamonds. This Map shows the Most Valuable Export of African Countries

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1794 Bolton Wall Map of Africa

#18th_century, #africa, #united_kingdom

National Geographic Magazine Map of Africa (1909)

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Africa Satellite Terrain Map

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Etymological Map of Africa

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16th century map of Spain and North Africa

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Slave Trade of Africa by J. G. Bartholomew (1899)

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Exaggerated Relief Map of Madagascar

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Political map of Africa from 1850, largely uncolonised, showing the Mountains of the Moon and a lot of blank space.

#19th_century, #africa, #politics

Climate zones of Africa

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Tourist Map of South Africa (1937)

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African American in the United States

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New Map Of Ancient Africa, 1700

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Africae tabula nova. Map of Africa 1570

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African Battlegrounds (1942)

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1832 Map of Africa

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1818 Pinkerton Map of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Nubia

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Colored map of Africa by Jodocus Hondius, c.1633

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Satellite image of Africa and population density

#africa, #census

1670 Olfert Dapper map of Barbaria, Biledulgerid, Libye, and Pars Nigritarum Terra (north africa)

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A Chart of the Great Western Ocean with the Coast of Europe, Africa and America, 1728

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Carta Marina / drawn by Martin Waldseemüller in 1516. This is a remix of both fantastical and official testimony of the world. King Manuel of Portugal is riding a sea monster close to the southern coast of Africa, a symbol of the Portuguese control over the marine route between Africa and India

#16th_century, #africa, #asia, #europe, #india, #portugal

1918 Map of Africa

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Boundaries of Africa

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What do the US, Somalia, Swiss, and Turkey have in common? Anthem of the world by subject.

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Map of Colonialism in Africa from National Geographic (1889)

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Mitchell Map of the Liberia Colony, showing American colonization societies (1839)

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Forest Cover Map of Africa

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1656 map of Egypt and northern Libya - by Nicolas Sanson

#17th_century, #africa, #arab_world, #egypt

Size of South Sudan compared to American East Coast

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The World according to Eratosthenes, 220 BC

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Population density of Egypt

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Actual "furthest you can walk on a straight line in the world" -- Freetown, Sierra Leone to Shantou, China

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Physical wall map of Africa 1879, by Joseph Cavanne and Henri Duveyrier

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Island of Gorée, Senegal and its fortifications (1772)

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1827 Finley Map of Africa - showing the Mountains of Kong, and the Mountains of the Moon

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Deforestation in Mozambique

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Portolan chart of Europe and northern Africa by Diogo Homem, 1563

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Map of Africa from 1688

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1561 map of West Africa by Girolamo Ruscelli

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Central Africa - Congo Free State and its neighbors (1905)

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Africa 1679

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The Impact of Presidential Term Limits in Africa

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Africa 1808. From Brookes, R., The General Gazetteer, or Compendious Geographical Dictionary. Eighth edition. Dublin, 1808.

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Map of French colonies: French Equatorial Africa circa 1920 (X-post geographie)

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Münster's map of Africa, c1556

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Ethnic map of Sudan and South Sudan

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Japanese World War II Pictorial Map of Europe, Asia and northern Africa (1942)

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Average Number of Kids Per Woman in Africa

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Unrecognised states in Africa

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Atlas of Italy's Colonial Possessions in Africa (GIF)

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