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.

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

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.

Cartographers have unveiled a new map of the world which shows the size of the continents more accurately. The new projection is called Equal Earth and is designed to represent the relative sizes ...

IT’S been revealed that the world map we’ve used for centuries doesn’t actually accurately illustrate the globe’s countries and continents. When this world map was charted i… ...

You might think you know all of Earth’s continents, but there’s one that has remained hidden for millions of years. Zealandia, a massive landmass mostly submerged beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean, ...

Mercator maps distort the shape and relative size of continents, particularly near the poles. This is why Greenland appears to be similar in size to all of South America on Mercator maps, when in ...

The Italian director Tommaso Santambrogio shot “Oceans Are the Real Continents” in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, with a cast of nonactors playing like-named characters they had a hand in ...

An incredible map shows the “true” size of Africa with China, India and America all fitting inside. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT The continent is 30.37 million km² and covers 20 ...

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

Maps have a way of distorting our perception of the world. But AuthaGraph is trying to bring us back to reality with a new map that accurately depicts the size of continents in comparison to each ...