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

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

But the most well-known version today - called the Mercator projection - drastically distorts the size of many countries. Few examples demonstrate this distortion better than Greenland.

Useful, often colorful, and sometimes a bit confusing, maps can also be distorted. Mercator maps, for example, flatten the round globe into a two-dimensional projection that significantly alters the ...

But to most people, the Mercator projection is highly misleading. Tissot's indicatrix, a geometric equation used to show distortion on maps, explains the problems with Mercator. One of the best ...