Mind-blowing map shows real size of every country - with a massive north-south divide. ... while the first world map was crafted by Greek scholar Anaximander in the 6th century BC.

On maps, Greenland is almost the same size as Africa, but In the real world, Africa is almost 15 times larger. Antarctica is always shown on maps as an immense territory, but the truth is that It ...

James Talmage and Damon Maneice, creators of The True Size Of, say they hope geography teachers will use the map to show their students how big the world really is. Expand Image On a standard Mercator ...

When you look at a map of the world, it makes sense to assume that Greenland and Africa are similar in size. But in reality, the African continent is 14 times as big as the icy northern land mass.

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 ...

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In this eye-opening video, we reveal the truth about how big (or small ...

This discrepancy between the map size of a country and the real size of a country happens because we try to project our world which is shaped like a sphere (which is 3D, you know) onto a 2D map.

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.

Cape Town - How large is the world really, when compared to its depiction on a globe and a map? Most people might guess but few would have any idea of the scale of difference between the two. But if ...

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.

Mind-blowing map shows real size of every country - there's a massive north-south divide Africa, Europe and North America are completely different on this new map.

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.