Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

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.

A fantastic map from ... dwarfs the continent Europe, having about the same surface area as Africa, while Saturn's little moon Enceladus is hardly bigger than Japan. It's a wide world out there ...