Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

It’s a political tactic that has lasted as long as maps have, according to Karl Offen, a geography professor at Syracuse ...

Contrary to the map ... of geography class, but even once we’ve learned the truth, the errors on our mental maps tend to persist. One reason for this may be that our conceptions of the world ...

The first thing you need to do to understand the world, and to a large extent the behavior of nations, is to look at a map. “Geography is ... As for Greenland, the idea of buying it from Denmark ...

Newly accessible sea routes are transforming the world’s political geography. The US government ... of what had seemed like a settled world map. Greenland, an 836,000-square-mile island mostly ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...