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.

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

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

In fact, it's 14 times smaller than Africa, something that is apparent when you look at its actual size to scale on a globe. Why is Greenland so distorted on a flat map?

The standard map projection, called the Mercator projection, was developed in 1569 and is still widely used. However, it heavily distorts the size of the continents, making Africa look tiny and ...

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 ...

Our world is an amazing place. However, our view of it isn't always terribly accurate. In fact, the maps that we use often work to reinforce our misconceptions. For example, the size of Europe is ...

The True Size map lets users compare countries by their actual size in square kilometres ... For example, Greenland is usually portrayed as roughly the same size as the continent of Africa, but its ...

Africa is bigger than it looks on most maps of the world. Try for free. Enterprise. ... LAST month Kai Krause, a computer-graphics guru, caused a stir with a map entitled "The True Size of Africa ...

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.