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

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

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.

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 ...

Many maps on school textbooks, Google Maps, travel books, etc.Mercator projectionAlthough it is drawn by Mercator's map, some mistakes are included in the map. Although it will inevitably cause ...

Google pointed out the change in Google Maps in a tweet saying that with new 3D Globe Mode, Greenland’s projection is no longer the size of Africa ...

It has long been known that many of the most popular maps of the globe are wrong. However, a new graphicshows exactly how wrong the commonly used Mercator map is. It reveals the huge imbalances in ...

Creating a map of the world presents a fundamental problem – how to turn the three-dimensional sphere of the Earth into a flat, two-dimensional image. In 1569, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus ...

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