You will notice that the half circle has become a sphere. That is where the world map will fit, and it will look like a globe. Click the word None or the drop-down arrow beside it. You will see a ...

What Rankin finds is that one part of the globe is especially human-centric. The numbers on the map below show what proportion of humanity lives in the half of the world centered on that point.

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world ... map is so proportionally accurate that you can fold it up into a three-dimensional globe.

Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across the ... regions to be shaped as they are on a globe, or sized as they are on a globe?

On a typical world map, Canada is a vast nation. Home to six time zones, its endless plains spread from ocean to ocean, dominating great swathes of the northern half of the globe. But, in reality ...

We can’t bring [our globes] out for readers to look at because they are so fragile, so they are the hidden world maps and hidden star charts of the collection.” Imaging specialists at the ...

For decades, geography teachers have relied on a more than 400-year-old map that grossly distorts the size of the world’s landmasses ... at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter ...