Simulated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_cover" class="extiw" title="en:Land cover">land cover</a> map of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" class="extiw" title="en:Africa">Africa</a> showing the natural aspect of the land with bathymetry as it could be seen from space; for geo-location purposes. Borders as in July 2011.
Tom Patterson and Eric Gaba (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sting" title="User:Sting">Sting</a> - <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Sting" class="extiw" title="fr:Utilisateur:Sting">fr:Sting</a>)
<p>Blank background map: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shadedrelief.com/natural2/index.html">Natural Earth II</a> (public domain) by Tom Patterson, US National Park Service<br></p>
Re-projection and additional data by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sting" title="User:Sting">Sting</a>