The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world map we've used for centuries doesn't ...

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.

Our understanding of Earth's continents might need an update based ... As scientists continue to investigate, the very map of the world we thought we knew may change. Note: Materials provided ...

He hopes to perform even more subdivisions of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents and ensure the most accurate map of the world.

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

and it marked the official discovery of a new continent: Antarctica. It also cemented the modern idea, upheld by most maps across the English-speaking world, that there are seven major landmasses.

But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa ... In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good job of showing ...

Representative image An international team of geologists and seismologists has created a newly refined map of Zealandia—considered to be the ‘eighth continent of the world’ that is beneath ...

Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by ... nondum cognita” (Unknown Southern Land), a hypothetical continent believed to exist in the southern hemisphere.