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

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.

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

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.

The interactive map allows users to search for a country and then compare its actual surface area against a Mercator projection map, one of the most popular and yet most inaccurate maps of our world.

Look at any map pinned to a classroom wall, and you’ll notice that Greenland seems particularly large. It’s true that the landmass isn’t exactly small, but its true size is nowhere near that ...

YouTuber Conor Kearney has been measuring open-world maps for a while now. ... That being said, until Ubisoft confirms the actual size of the map of Far Cry 6, ...

A lot has changed since illustrator Randall Monroe drew up the original XKCD "Map Of Online Communities" in 2007. In testament to how far we as Internet denizens have come, earlier this week XKCD ...