• Africa. ‘16th- Early 20th Century Maps of Africa’ (113 high res. but slow-loading maps of Africa, 1530-1915 - Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois) {February, 2007}
• Africa. ‘Afriterra Maps Catalog’ (a listing of over 5,000 maps, leading to over 1,000 very high res. Zoomify images, searchable by date, region of Africa, keyword, creator, etc.- Afriterra: the Cartographic Free Library. See also the entry under Web Projects) {September, 2001; updated November 2009; update June 2020, there is only a skeleton site}
• Africa (a selection of high res. images of maps of Africa, 16th-19th centuries, arranged chronologically - University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries, Map & Imagery Library) {December, 2003}
• Africa (17 very high res. images via Zoomify, 1845-1923 - Michigan State University) {April, 2001; amended September 2007}
• Africa (clicking on one of the map thumbnails brings up a page with small, low res. images of six early maps of Africa - South African Government) {November, 2002}
• Africa. 'The Atlantic slave trade and slave life in the Americas' (select 'Maps: Africa, New World, Slave Trade' for 30 images, enlargeable to medium res., mostly of original maps or details focussing on western Africa, with bibliographical commentary - Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr., the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library) {August, 2005}
Africa. CartoMundi – Online Promotion of the Cartographic Heritage. Digital Map Library (70,000 catalogue entries and 6,500 images, mostly relating to the Mediterranean and Balkans and from the late 19th or 20th centuries - a collaborative site involving about 20 map libraries - Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme – Aix-en-Provence). For a full geographical list (October 2017) see Here. {July, 2014}
• Africa. 'The collection of ancient maps' (20 maps of Africa as a whole or the central region, enlargeable to high res. with Zoomify - Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren) {September, 2010}
• Africa. Early African Cartography (33 enlargeable, high res. maps, 1562-1940 - American Museum of Natural History, using maps (with permission) from the New York Public Library and the British Library) {November, 2002}
• Africa. Hemispheres Antique Maps & Prints (unusually, this dealer site offers images enlargeable to high res., with special reference to Africa on which the proprietors, Richard and Penelope Betz, have produced the standard book, The Mapping of Africa: A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700 {July, 2007}
• 'Africa Historical Maps' (41 [original not 'historical'] maps, enlargeable to high res. via LizardTech ExpressView Plugin - Yale University Library) {November, 2007}
• Africa. 'Kartenmaterial des Deutschen Koloniallexikon von 1920' (medium res. images, mostly covering Africa - Bildbestand der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft, Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main) {February, 2011}
• 'Africa Map' (a provisional version of a GIS program which will offer 10 earlier maps (from 1612) as an alternative layer; "AfricaMap is based on the Harvard University Geospatial Infrastructure (HUG) platform, and was developed by the Center for Geographic Analysis to make spatial data on Africa easier for researchers to discover and explore") {March, 2010}
• 'Africa mapped: how Europe drew a continent' (11 medium res. images - The Guardian, London, 2 October 2012) {February, 2016}
• Africa. 'Maps of Africa' (download Luna Insight for 623 high res. images, 15th-20th century, from the collections of Dr Oscar I. Norwich (312 maps) and Caroline Batchelor (179 maps) - Stanford University Libraries). [This also forms part of the multi-collection Visual Collections site - select ‘Cartography’, and see also here] {January, 2004; revised February 2012 & January 2015}
• Africa. ‘Maps of Africa: An Online Exhibit. A digital collection of African Maps at the Stanford University Libraries’ (enlargeable to high res.) {April, 2017}
• Africa.'Maps of Africa to 1900' (510 maps, in high res. ContentDM images; as described in Thomas J. Bassett, Maps of Africa to 1900: Checklist of maps in atlases and geographical journals in the collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, c. 2000) [See also here] {February, 2010; update May 2019 when 2,527 images - many late 19th century}
• Africa. Prester John. ‘The cartographic quest for Prester John’ (an illustrated 23-page essay by William H. Hansard) {June, 2019}
• + Africa. Prester John.‘The Story of Prester John’ (‘Discover how Europeans made sense of the diverse world around them in the age of European expansion just prior to the colonial era’ – a small virtual exhibition from the Harvard Map Collection, up to 25 June 2022) {December, 2020}
• Africa, Series 2201, 1:2,000,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1968- (sheets 1, 3, 5-7, 11-36; (high res. (though slow-loading) images - University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Africa south of the Sahara. Topics: Maps (a useful list of links, often itemising the Africa content of general sites, with a link to an overlapping site for South Africa - Karen Fung, Stanford University Libraries) {November, 2002}
• + 'Africa Through Western Eyes: Exploration of the Unknown' (4 low res. images - Yale University Library exhibit)
• + Africa. 'To the Mountains of the Moon: Mapping African Exploration, 1541-1880' (with a selection of maps, enlargeable to high res., but slow-loading - exhibition at Princeton University Library, 2007) {September, 2007}
• African American Odyssey (a few maps relating to West Africa and the US - select 'Object Checklist', then search for map - Library of Congress - high res. MrSID images, with the ability to zoom, enlarge and select details)
• Africa - see also Aluka under Web Projects
• Abyssinia. Georg Wilhelm Schimper - In Abyssinia. Observations on Tigre (Edited by Andreas Gestrich and Dorothea McEwan in collaboration with Stefan Hanß (London: British Library; German Historical Institute London; Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2015) with the maps (1864-5) available separately) {June, 2015}
• Algeria. 'Cartes et plans' (a selection of maps illustrating Histoire des colonies françaises - vol. 2 by Augustin Bernard - Algérie {January, 2006}
• Algeria City Plans, U.S. Army Map Service, 1942-1943 (high res. (though slow-loading) images, covering 18 cities - University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• British East Africa. 'The British Library Publishes War Office Archive Maps Online' (over 550 MS maps & sketches, enlargeable to high res., relating to modern-day Kenya, Uganda and adjacent parts of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, 1890-1940 - follow the link to the 'Collection Guide') {November, 2015}
• British East Africa. ‘War Office Archive maps’ (‘the British Library has digitised over 1600 military intelligence maps and documents from the War Office Archive. These relate to East Africa, particularly modern-day Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somaliland, Tanzania and Uganda’). See also, 'Adding 1,277 East African maps to Georeferencer', Nick Dykes for the British Library Maps blog, 14 July 2021) {March, 2018; updated 2021}
• Canaries (Canary Islands). 'Atlas des Isles Canaries' (enlargeable, high res. images of the preliminaries and 13 sheets of Leopold von Buch's 1836 atlas - Proyecto Humboldt) {December, 2002}
• Canaries. ‘Cartoteca Virtual: Islas Canarias’ (search for an island, or a specific feature, and then, separately, for 'Digital' or 'Paper', to retrieve descriptions and images of maps from various collections, zoomable to fairly high res.; there are also texts, online essays and a general bibliography (including some further online articles) - part of an EU-funded GIS project from Grupo Mercator, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) {July, 2007}
• Canaries. El Hierro a través de la cartografía (1588-1899) (an article, with bibliography, illustrated with a selection of medium res. images, by Juan Tous Meliá, Proyecto Humboldt) {March, 2007}
• Cameroon. ‘Competing Cartographies in Cameroon’ (illustrated with enlargeable maps - Amelia Raines for the Library of Congress Maps blog, 21 February 2023) {May, 2023}
• Cape Verde Islands. 'Overview of Historical Maps of the Cape Verde Islands' (a selection of maps from 1468 onwards, some in high res. - Andreas Heuijerjans & Leonor de Brito) {June, 2014}
• Central Africa. Cartesius. ‘Maps, plans, sketches and aerial imagery’ (a selection, enlargeable to high res., covering Belgium and Central Africa online – a cooperation between the National Geographic Institute, the Royal Library, the State Archives and the Royal Museum for Central Africa) {December, 2016}
• 'Congo Journey: Photographs and Documents from Robert Hottot's Expedition to Central Africa, 1908-1909' (four maps of Chad (and elsewhere), collected or drawn by the French explorer, Robert Hottot (1884-1939)- a virtual exhibition from the PittRivers Museum, Oxford) {June, 2007}
• East Africa, Series Y503, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1958- (high res. images - University of Texas Libraries) {April, 2010}
• Egypt. 'Cartes et plans anciens' (a selection of low to medium res. 19th & 20th century town plans, mostly of Alexandria and Cairo) {January, 2006}
• Egypt. ‘Historic Maps Digital Collection’ (209 maps, enlargeable to high res. covering ‘Egypt, with a focus on Cairo and its development during the late 19th and early 20th centuries’- The American University in Cairo) {November, 2020}
• Egypt. 'The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA)' (select 'historical maps' for 148 scans, both original and historical, mainly of Egypt (19th and early 20th centuries) enlargeable to high res.) {December, 2008}
• Ethiopia. ‘Ethiomap: Exploring Modern Historical Maps of the Horn of Africa’ (indexes to the maps, enlargeable to high res., can be self-generated by place, relief, water body, etc.) {July, 2017}
• Liberia. 'Maps of Liberia 1830-1870' (Library of Congress - high res. MrSID images, with the ability to zoom, enlarge and select details)
• Libya. Tripolitania (Libya) City Plans, U.S. Army Map Service, 1943 (high res. (though slow-loading) images, covering four cities - University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Libya. Cyrenaica (Libya), Series P662, 1:100,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1940- (high res. images - University of Texas Libraries) {April, 2010}
• Libya. Tripoli (Libya), Series P661, 1:100,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1936- (high res. images - University of Texas Libraries) {April, 2010}
• Mali. 'Islamic Manuscripts from Mali: Timbuktu in Space and Time - Maps' (11 maps, enlargeable to high res. via JPEG2000, 1590-1970 - part of the Library of Congress Global Gateway presentation 'Islamic Manuscripts from Mali') {January, 2006}
• Morocco, U.S. Army Map Service, 1:50,000, 1941- (high res. images - University of Texas Libraries) {April, 2010}
• Morocco. Southern Morocco, Series P632, 1:125,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1943- (high res. images - University of Texas Libraries) {April, 2010}
• Morocco City Plans, U.S. Army Map Service, 1942-1947 (high res. (though slow-loading) images, covering 24 cities - University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• North Africa. '19th-Century Maps of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia' (a sizeable collection. enlargeable to high res. - University of Chicago Library) {February, 2016}
• North Africa. 'Cartes marines anciennes' (select the section 'Méditerranée - Afrique' for eleven maps and charts, viewable in high res. via the 'Taille' link [most of the enlargement options beneath the thumbnail do not work]; see also 'Cartes anciennes diverses' - reproduced under licence from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) by Jacques Zan) {November, 2005}
• North Africa, Series P502, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1954- (includes Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia; high res. (though slow-loading) images - University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• St Helena: maps and views pre-1800 (a good selection of medium to high res. maps, with some pre-selected details - Barry Weaver)
• São Tomé e Príncipe. 'Cartas, diagramas e informação geográfica. 6/ Cartografia antiga' (a selection of medium res., general maps; part of the Atlas de São Tomé e Príncipe) {May, 2010}
• Sierra Leone (nine maps, enlargeable to high res. - the Sierra Leone web) {July, 2010}
• Sierra Leone, Series G541, 1:125,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1942- (high res. images - University of Texas Libraries) {April, 2010}
• South Africa, Series Z501, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1954- (includes all or part of Basutoland, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, South Africa, South West Africa, Swaziland, Republic of the Congo; high res. (though slow-loading) images, covering 24 cities - University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Tunisia City Plans, U.S. Army Map Service, 1942-1943 (high res. (though slow-loading) images, covering nine cities - University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• West Africa. 'Cartas, diagramas e informação geográfica. 6/ Cartografia antiga' (a selection of medium res., general maps; part of the Atlas de São Tomé e Príncipe) {May, 2010}
• West Africa. French West Africa, 1:200,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1940- (high res. images - University of Texas Libraries) {April, 2010}
• West Africa, Series N504, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1955- (includes all or part of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Upper Volta; high res. (though slow-loading) images - University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Islamic mapping, see under that heading in the Images and Text sections

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