It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world ... map is so proportionally accurate that you can fold it up into a three-dimensional globe.

A year later, the world tallied its first 100 million cases. It took the globe just 7 more months to ... so far in the pandemic. Explore the chart below to find a country-by-country breakdown ...

Maps are flat representations of our spherical ... it’s best to stick with a globe. Understand the world with a daily explainer plus the most compelling stories of the day, compiled by news ...

Gardner’s tidy flattening-out of the globe’s longest rivers also got some stats woefully wrong. Gardner claims the Nile–the world’s fifth longest river, according to the chart–to be only ...

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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 ... size to scale on a globe.