Users on Reddit have been left baffled after seeing a map with the true size and shape of countries — including Greenland — ...

Mercator maps, for example, flatten the round globe into a two-dimensional projection that significantly alters the sizes (and even shapes) of continents, countries, and bodies of water. As a result, ...

Whether you realize it or not, you're probably pretty familiar with the Mercator projection. It's the chosen map of Google, and often displayed in classrooms around the country. But Boston public ...

The president-elect said he covets Greenland for its size. He could be misinterpreting it based on well-known mapping ...

However you look at the world, whether it’s with a globe ... of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat surface. The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts ...