The president-elect said he covets Greenland for its size. He could be misinterpreting it based on well-known mapping distortion.

Donald Trump wants the United States to buy Greenland for its strategically vital resources, to bolster US security and give ...

The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of ...

The US has long seen Greenland as essential to its defence and its acquisition has been discussed before. Not just in 2019 ...

The US president-elect does not rule out force to take over the Danish territory – home to a US military base.

A map showing how small some countries really are has left people shocked. Reddit users have been surprised by a map showing the real size of countries was posted on the site, in the week after ...

(On maps showing the Mercator projection, Greenland looks considerably larger than the United States; in reality, it is about one-quarter the size of the continental United States.) His post ...

President-elect Donald Trump's recently revived determination to acquire Greenland have many speculating why he wants the self-governing territory. One reason could be how "massive" he believes ...

But the most well-known version today - called the Mercator projection - drastically distorts the size of many countries. Few examples demonstrate this distortion better than Greenland.