Map and Stats for Africa’s Undersea Internet Cables

by HASH on June 11, 2009

Steve Song has put together a great interactive map that helps you visualize what undersea internet cables go where in Africa. There’s also a helpful table of statistics and data on each of the cables. Head on over to his site and check it out.

A map of Africas undersea internet cables

More on the history of this project.

{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Miquel 06.11.09 at 12:53 pm

That’s super cool! I’ve found that African internet cables have become one of my bigger points of fixation as of late :)

2 Steve Song 06.11.09 at 3:14 pm

Hey thanks Erik! In case anyone is interested in adapting or updating their own version of this map, you can download the source SVG file (CC-BY) which has the cables in individual vector layers.

3 Sid Parmar 06.11.09 at 4:44 pm

I cannot wait till this all materializes. Zambia has been left out of the tech revolution for too long, and this is going to close gaps. Yaay!!!

4 Brent 06.13.09 at 3:26 am

Just so no drunk Portuguese drop anchors on them…ahem Cabo Verde…

5 moses 06.13.09 at 8:05 am

I don’t understand this map fully. What about the interior countries? countries like Uganda, rwanda, burundi etc. Will they benefit from this project? Because it seems to me that only countries with a coastline benefit.
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