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

At first glance, Greenland appears almost as large as the entire continent of Africa on many world maps. In reality, ...

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The worst thing about the getting people together is when everyone starts fighting over their favourite map projection– maybe ...

Almost 100,000 people around the world played an online map projection game that asked them to judge land areas. Their guesses showed that most people’s inner picture of the planet is closer to ...

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is under a winter storm watch ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Heavy lake-effect snow could bring accumulations of a foot or more to some areas. Strong winds up to 45 mph ...

A suggestion: add a button to reset the coordinate frame to: Equator horizontal and centered; poles aligned at top and bottom (ie: central meridian is vertical) - at bottom-right, like the compass in ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the ...