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.

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In this eye-opening video, we reveal the truth about how big (or small ...

A new kind of world map (above) has been developed that shows the true size of the continents without distorting their shapes too much. The world map you are probably familiar with is called the ...

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.

Some critics argue that Mercator's map, and the continued use of his style, gives a misleading impression of the actual size of many countries, particularly Africa.

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Are you sitting down? The world map you’re probably most familiar with has been misleading you in a subtle but important way: many land masses appear either smaller or larger than they actually are.

Incredible map shows ‘true’ size of Africa - China, India and America all fit inside The continent is 30.37 million km² and covers 20 percent of the planet's land area and six percent of its ...

This discrepancy between the map size of a country and the real size of a country happens because we try to project our world which is shaped like a sphere (which is 3D, you know) onto a 2D map.

When you look at a map of the world, it makes sense to assume that Greenland and Africa are similar in size. But in reality, the African continent is 14 times as big as the icy northern land mass ...

Even South Africa and Namibia prove to be quite large in actual comparison to Greenland, Canada and Russia. The reason why certain countries look bigger or smaller than others is because of the ...