Africa

Africa is the continent where satellite imagery shows you the most that maps obscure. The Sahara alone is the size of the United States, and within it the texture, dune orientation, and oasis patterns shift dramatically between Mauritania, Niger, Libya, and Egypt. South of the Sahel, the savanna mosaic of acacia and grassland gives way to the rainforests of the Congo Basin and the dry highlands of East Africa.

For players learning EarthGuessr, Africa rewards two skills: reading climate zones from vegetation and reading agricultural intensity from field shape. The smallholder mosaics of Ethiopia, Uganda, and Malawi are very different from the large mechanised farms of South Africa or the irrigation pivots of Saudi-style desert agriculture in Libya. Once you can read those patterns, Africa stops being a continent where every round looks the same.

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