so im making a concerted effort to really get on top of my world map and I find most regions relatively easy, based on my historical geopolitical understanding, to figure out where most countries are, but west africa has a lot of relatively smaller states which i really struggle to remember… any tips (apps, books, political stories about the region)? the gambia is goated for being river shaped obviously
central america is also not so easy and the pacific islands (which i haven’t really got around to yet)
yes but those games often play in a time before or during colozisation, so most modern african countries either are not represented on the map of are pre-colonial kingdoms and tribes (paradox games)
They’re probably talking about puzzle games like these: https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3163
I have no doubt that most maps contain colonial bias, much like Mercator maps distort sizes. Do you have a link to a modern map, perhaps drawn by African cartographers? I searched, but came up empty.