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

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

Fail to contain the bird flu. Although in the short term this will decrease our egg supply, ultimately we’ll be left with ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, Greenland is actually much smaller than it appears on maps because of the Mercator projection, which makes it look a similar size to Africa. The projection is used to create flat maps but ...