An incredibly detailed explanation of why this international nightmare came to be.

Is Greenland really as big as it seems? Find out more about its true size with five maps that might change your ...

Greenland’s position in the northern latitudes means the nation’s size and shape is prone to enormous variations in how it is ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory much larger than it is.

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) -The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more ...

In June, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, speaking from the International Space Station, noted that India looked "much larger" from space than on standard maps. This very phenomenon, where tropical ...