In the following visual explainer, Al Jazeera maps the names and meanings of countries around the world ... North and Central America: ‘Low Sea’ and ‘The place of the Mexica’ Like Africa, the majority ...

In the following visual explainer, Al Jazeera maps the names and meanings ... of various empires and kingdoms. Like Africa, the majority of the country names in North and Central America were ...

Maps portraying Africa as overrun by China suggest that governments and civil society are mere bystanders unable to negotiate their own foreign and domestic agendas. The reality is that countries ...

Our exhaustive search of American place names discovered that one country has been a shockingly dominant source of ...

Africa is home to some of the world's most extraordinary natural wonders, and one of the most captivating is the Miombo Forest. Spanning across seven countries and covering an area equivalent to ...

On February 7th Mr Trump issued an executive order that stopped aid to South Africa, citing the country’s “aggressive ... harmful laws passed in the name of racial redress at home might ...

Globally it's on the map too, as Morocco welcomed 17.4 million international tourists in 2024, a 20% increase on 2023, making it the most-visited country in Africa, according to UN Tourism data.

The government has embarked on identifying and mapping 'native legacy trees ' across the country to collect historical and cultural narratives associated with these trees for conservation, eco-tourism ...

The U.S. renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, but the name change is only apparent on digital maps seen in the U.S. Mapping companies navigate political tensions over disputed areas by ...

Seychelles, is the richest country in Africa by GDP per capita (Purchasing Power Parity) in 2025, according to the data on the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Oil and gas continue to influence ...