Similarly, India appears tiny compared to Greenland on a map, but with a land size of 3,166,414 sq km, it is actually larger. Since India is located near the equator, it appears much smaller in ...

IT’S been revealed that the world map we’ve used for centuries doesn’t actually accurately illustrate the globe’s countries and continents. When this world map was charted i… ...

By the time the outline of Russia is placed on the equator, it is significantly smaller than it appeared at first and is dwarfed by the continent of Africa. The video amassed thousands of comments.

The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017.

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

The Peters — or, Gall-Peters — projection, an attempt to better reflect the position of the equator and the size of the continents. While things get squishy in places, most experts agree that ...

The continent of Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland, but on many maps they're roughly the same size. No, Greenland is not actually the same size as Africa. AMAZING FACTS ...