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

We think we know why he’s really interested in it. It’s because Greenland looks really, really big on the Mercator projection. Wikipedia Greenland is not small. We would never disrespect ...

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 ...

At 2,166,086 square kilometres, Greenland looks deceptively big on the Mercator projection. Greenland could become a state with little difficulty. The total population of 56,000 would be easily ...

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 ...