How large is Greenland, really? Your map may be deceiving you

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...
IFLScience

Greenland is big, but it's not that big.

W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...
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Projection mapping and the law: What advertisers should know

Projection mapping is a great way to impress customers and brand your business, but you should look into the legal ...

Why Greenland Looks Bigger On The Map Than It Really Is

At first glance, Greenland appears almost as large as the entire continent of Africa on many world maps. In reality, Greenland is about 14 times smaller than Africa.
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...
Hyperallergic

Africa Wants a More Accurate World Map

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...