OPINION Trump and Pompeo redraw the map of North Africa With a bizarre, presumptuous tweet, the United States hastily declares a winner in a complex conflict.

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish Africa’s size and, along with it, its place in the world. But a new ...

Are Maps Accurate? Boston School Maps Depict Africa Bigger than North America. Published Mar 20, 2017 at 9:35 AM EDT Updated Mar 29, 2017 at 12:58 PM EDT.

This is believed to be the first map of Africa, as a continent. “Africa” was originally a Roman term for the region of modern Tunisia and the western portion of Libya.