Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

A collaboration of three cartographers has developed a new representation of the world map ... An equal area map projection retains the size of the continents as on earth, but distorts the ...

The world map you’re probably most familiar with has been misleading you in a subtle but important way: many land masses appear either ... portrayed as roughly the same size as the continent of Africa ...

Greenland: massive on a Mercator world map, but here's its true size between Africa and South America There are other projections of the globe that seek to represent the size of land masses more ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map ... you look at its actual size to scale ...