If you can't see the maps, click here Greenland measures just 2,166,086 square kilometers (sq km), whereas Africa spans 30,043,862 sq km. However, flat maps depict a different story.

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world map we've used for centuries doesn't ...

The Mercator projection, which is the most well-known map across the world, has a score of 8.396. Compared to the new map, which has a score of just 0.881, it is clear the new design is far less ...

A fascinating interactive map shows how different countries really compare in size – a problem that has for centuries stumped cartographers trying to show the spherical Earth on a flat piece of ...

Here's why flat world maps always have distortions. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ... though countries are roughly the correct size, they are by no means the right shape.

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. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

THIS revolutionary world map may look unfamiliar – but it has been hailed the most accurate 2D depiction of our globe ever made. The clever ‘origami’-style technique solves a cent… ...

For decades, geography teachers have relied on a more than 400-year-old map that grossly distorts the size of the world’s landmasses — the byproduct of trying to depict a sphere on a flat ...