Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Look at any map pinned to a classroom wall, and you’ll notice that Greenland ... whole African continent. As it turns out, the map we’ve long relied on to depict the world isn’t actually ...

But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa ... In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good job of showing ...

Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that ... the shape and relative size of continents, particularly near the poles. This is why Greenland appears to be similar in size to ...

Greenland is the world’s largest ... The widely reproduced map, created in 1569, suggests Greenland is roughly the same size as Africa when that continent is nearly 14 times larger.