Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't ...

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

Ogundairo’s obsession with map projections is not random. The 28-year-old is leading an African-led campaign to get more of global institutions and schools to immediately stop using the Mercator ...

The map, observers pointed out, was only distorted differently: Where the Mercator projection makes areas near the poles appear much larger, the Peters projection relatively represents accurate ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish geographer who designed this map in the 16th century, this projection shows meridians as parallel lines, which made the picture simple to display on ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection.

A Mercator map projection from 1924 with an oversized Greenland at the top. Rand McNally and Company/David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Trump may have been misled by the Mercator.

The reason the Mercator projection is distorted is because it maps the globe onto a cylinder. Areas near the poles are greatly exaggerated in size compared to areas near the equator.