Africa - Vivid Maps

September 28, 2017 Alex

Etymological Map of Africa

The name of the African continent itself was named after the Afri People, who lived in the area of Carthage (current-day Tunisia) during Roman times.

September 6, 2017 Alex

% of Africans who can read

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Ethnic maps Old maps

August 29, 2017 Alex

Ethnographic maps of the 19th century

First ethnographic maps appeared in the 19th century to reveal the distribution of distinct ethnic groups and languages. They focus on parts of the colonial world in which the ethnic distribution was only coming to be studied by Western scientists and those regions of Europe and Asia where the geography of ethnicity differed with political borders.

Mapping Health Old maps

August 29, 2017 Alex

National Geographic Map of Africa (1909)

Map of Modern and Historical range of the elephants

Animals

July 13, 2017 Alex

Modern and Historical range of the elephants

Elephant populations have decreased by 62% over the last decade. The main historical factors behind elephants’ decline are the demand for ivory, habitat loss, habitat degradation, and fragmentation.