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 ...

Maps don’t show Greenland’s true size. Here’s how big it actually is.

The world's largest island has its own system of fjords, lakes and black-sand beaches. What to know about the size of the ...
IFLScience

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World

And it was only after 1520, once Magellan had rounded the tip of South America and sailed into the Pacific, that Europeans were thought to have confirmed the continental nature of the New World. And ...
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...