W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

Schools in Boston have discarded the widely used but distorted map of the world in a bid to give children a more accurate depiction of the world. Social studies teachers in the public schools in ...

The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it’s not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...

At first glance, Greenland appears almost as large as the entire continent of Africa on many world maps. In reality, Greenland is about 14 times smaller than Africa.

African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...

Students attending Boston public schools will get a more accurate depiction of the world after the school district rolled out a new standard map of the world that show North America and Europe much ...

MAPS of the world have the impossible task of portraying the Earth—a three-dimensional shape—on a flat sheet of paper. Mapmakers have to choose a projection of the globe that approximates the basic ...

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014, the ...

Check the nearest map. Does Greenland look like it’s close in size to the entire continent of Africa? Does Antarctica seem to sprawl enormously across the south of the world? Does Alaska look as big ...

CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...