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

The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017.

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.

Depending on the map projection used, the size of continents can be quite distorted - and a map showing the true size of each country shows there is a north-south divide ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.