Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

The map you grew up with has been lying to you about the true size of countries. Representing a 3D world on a 2D map is always going to end up with some issues and some compromises.

The interactive map allows users to search for a country and then compare its actual surface area against a Mercator projection map, one of the most popular and yet most inaccurate maps of our world.

Cape Town - Did you know that countries, as we see them on a map or globe, are not actually in proportion? The US and Australia are about the same size, Russia - when placed on the equator - proves to ...

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.

True Scale Map of the World Shows How Big Countries Really Are Published Oct 23, 2018 at 10:54 AM EDT A mosaic of world countries retaining their correct size and shape.

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.

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. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

Look at any map pinned to a classroom wall, and you’ll notice that Greenland seems particularly large. It’s true that the landmass isn’t exactly small, but its true size is nowhere near that ...