Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...

In reality, while still being very large, it's substantially smaller than Western Australia - and not too much bigger than ...

A "radically different" flat map of the Earth has been produced by scientists who say it is more accurate than any previous 2D models that came before. The two-sided map is made up of two circles ...

How do you represent the world globe on a flat surface? Can it be done without distorting the sizes of countries and continents and the distances between places? What would it take to make an accurate ...