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

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

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 ...

Donald Trump wants the United States to buy Greenland for its strategically vital resources, to bolster US security and give China a bloody nose. But he also wants to strike his largest ever real ...

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

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

This proposal was made under the veil of Cold War secrecy and only became public knowledge in 1991 through an Associated Press report. The Mercator projection: What is the actual size of Greenland?

The Mercator projection also inflates the size of lands the further they are from the equator. Landmasses such as Greenland, Canada, Russia, and Antarctica get a bulge and appear far larger than ...