When people try, whole continents get distorted, with the most famous being Africa, a continent that is frequently underrepresented in size on most world maps ... a new 2D map that is flat ...

American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller's 'dymaxion' world map used a polyhedral net intended to be built as a 3D globe. In its 2D form the map divided up the continents far away from ...

Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably ... area map projections for world maps, but could not ...