Greenland’s position in the northern latitudes means the nation’s size and shape is prone to enormous variations in how it is ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...

The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of schoolchildren thought Greenland was as large as Africa. Though out of fashion, it ...

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based platforms, mobile apps, desktop software, and embedded systems for our home ...

image: This global digital map of Phoebe was created using data taken during the Cassini spacecraft's close flyby of the small moon in June 2004. The mosaic is projected into the Mercator projection ...