Tag: borders

• Where the borders are straight: who drew the world’s ruler lines, and is Africa really the straightest?

  

  I measured every land border on Earth. 19% is ruler-straight, and Africa holds 54% of it, but North America is straighter by share. Plus the treaties behind the 40 longest straight lines.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Africa, borders, colonialism, data visualisation, geography, maps, Natural Earth, treaties