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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Of the now 36 hotspots worldwide, most are in continents that cross the equator, where the climate is warm and humid. The reason for this has to do not just with animals but also with plants.

Hint: It Lives On 3 Different Continents But Never Goes South Of The Equator. ByScott Travers. Follow Author. Share. Save Comment. Innovation Science.

Expert explains why maps of Britain show Cornwall 'ever so slightly' bigger than it actually is. ... touching at the equator, and then the lines of the continents are drawn onto the paper.

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 ...