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

But, in reality, three Canadas would comfortably fit inside Africa. Our world map is wildly misleading ... Taking the equator as the logical map center left big, confusing gaps near the poles.

Greenland is just 2,166,086 square kilometres (sq km), whereas Africa is 30,043,862 sq km. However, flat maps show something quite different. Similarly, India on a map looks minute compared to ...

But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. In fact ... In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good job ...

When you look at a map of the world, it makes sense to assume that Greenland and Africa are similar in size. But in reality, the African continent is 14 times as big as the icy northern land mass.

An incredible map shows the “true” size of Africa ... it accounts for about 18 percent of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest among all the continents; the ...

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 ...

Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes detailed representations of parts of Northern Africa. His work is significant not only ...