The most glaring example of this distortion is Greenland, which appears to be about the same size as Africa on the map, but in reality, the continent is nearly 14-and-a-half times larger.

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is ... The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts the size of countries and continents.

Because they portray our world in only two dimensions, continents ... similar 10-year-old map by cartographer Paul Breding that resized countries based on their population size, college student ...