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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
(www.channelnewsasia.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
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Some more context, it's not that they just highlighted the wrong countries, the highlighted blobs aren't even countries.
Partial marks for Uganda being in the correct area, though the shape only vaguely resmbles the country.
The Nigeria one overlaps Nigeria a bit, though is mostly over Niger.
The westernmost one (whose label points at Namibia on the map instead of one of the text labels) does overlap Ivory Coast but mostly covers Ghana and Togo, along with a little of Benin and Nigeria.
The one labeled Ivory Coast covers some of Malawi, as well as Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique.
The one labeled Malawi covers parts of Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa.
The one labeled Mozambique is mostly within Ethiopia, though it looks like it dips down into Kenya as well.
Though maybe this is a map that wasn't intended to show countries but the person that changed the slide didn't know any African geography so couldn't tell.