So, what does the real-world map look like? To show how incorrect our understanding of countries by size is, a website called thetruesize.com lets you move land masses into different locations.

It also now states, in Putin’s words, that Russia is ‘entitled to use our weapons’ against countries which allow their ...

Some globes show how the land is divided into different countries ... maps were hand-drawn by using careful measurements of the ground. Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the ...

Over the past decade, the creator and host of the ‘Geography Now’ web series Paul 'Barbs' Barbato has profiled every United Nations-recognised country.