Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help ...

This story appears in the October 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... hydroelectric and agricultural potential, all of Africa could be beholden to it, and thus to its mother country.

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

Surrounded by the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, South Africa contains some of the most breathtaking scenery on earth. National Geographic Channel has filmed nine remarkable short films in which some ...