Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

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.

If the world were mapped according to how many scientific research papers each country produced, it would take on a rather bizarre, uneven appearance.

Many modern open-world titles like Elden Ring, The Legend of Zelda, and Assassin's Creed feature vast and intricately ...

Inspired by a similar 10-year-old map by cartographer Paul Breding that resized countries based on their population size, college student Chase Mohrman decided to create his own updated version.

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

On a typical world map, Canada is a vast nation. Home to six time zones, its endless plains spread from ocean to ocean, dominating great swathes of the northern half of the globe. But, in reality ...

According to that interview, the region is about the same size as Origins' chunk of ancient Egypt, but it's based on a more realistic scale. Dumont explains that "the environments feel wider" in ...

The interactive map allows users to search for a country and then compare its actual surface area against a Mercator projection map, one of the most popular and yet most inaccurate maps of our world.

Mind-blowing map shows real size of every country - there's a massive north-south divide Africa, Europe and North America are completely different on this new map. By Jessica Knibbs ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.