Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map ...
On most maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than ...
“Maps are facts, but they can also be arguments — and Trump recognises that,” said Cheshire. He suggested that Trump’s love of a real estate deal, where schematic plans become reality, may be behind ...
President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland's location between North America and Russia gives it ...
These maps show two different approaches to depicting Greenland. The left map is an orthographic projection, emulating a globe. The right map is a Mercator projection, which exaggerates the sizes of ...