The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

The Mercator map, widely used since 1599, shows a version of Africa that has been distorted to appear significantly smaller.

The map of Africa taken by Sentinel-2A. Image contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2015-2016), processed by land cover. Click to view in full resolution. Image: CCI/ESA ...

And the above map certainly suggests enormous ethnic diversity across western and central Africa. You can play around with Harvard’s interactive map, overlaying other variables and studies, here.

In Mr Krause's map (above) he seems to have used the shapes of the countries from a Mercator projection, but has scaled up the outline of Africa, without changing its shape, to show the ...