How large is Greenland, really? Your map may be deceiving you

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...
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Greenland is big, but it's not that big.

W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...
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Africa is much bigger than most maps show, and a new campaign wants that fixed

African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...
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Schools in Boston ditch ‘distorted and outdated’ map of the world for more accurate plan

Schools in Boston have discarded the widely used but distorted map of the world in a bid to give children a more accurate depiction of the world. Social studies teachers in the public schools in ...
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30 countries compared to the United States with a real scale perspective

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This animated map shows the true size of each country

One of the best known and commonly used world maps, the Mercator Projection, depicts Greenland and Africa as being roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is 14 times larger. This clever animation ...
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The World Map You’ve Known Forever Is Wrong—and Africa Wants to Redraw It

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the ...