Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map ...

Maps sit quietly in classrooms, on news websites and inside phone screens. They look settled and precise, but the world they show is always slightly b.

On most maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

Trump’s Greenland threats have turned the Arctic from a distant, long-term concern into an urgent strategic test for Canada, ...

High in the Pennine Alps, more than 3,000m above sea level, climate change has been quietly redrawing the Swiss-Italian border. Below the jagged peak of the Matterhorn, a strip of land on the ...

History is often taught as if the mapping of the world began with Europe—Renaissance portolan charts, Mercator projections, imperial surveys—while Africa appears as an unmapped space, known only once ...

Take a look at a map today, and you might think North America is larger than Africa or Greenland is larger than Mexico and China. But that's not true in the slightest. The issue derives from trying to ...