It's that map ... Africa when it is actually about 14 times smaller. Alaska looks bigger than Mexico and Germany is in the middle of the picture, not to the north — because Mercator moved the ...

An incredible map ... equator appear smaller and countries closer to the poles larger. Because of this, land masses like Russia and North America appear enormous in comparison to central Asia ...

Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds ... longitudinal relationship between the Americas. Most of Africa is north of the equator, though on many mental maps it is mostly in the southern ...

On the Mercator map, Africa – sitting on the equator, reasonably undistorted – is left looking much smaller than it really is. But Canada, Russia, the United States and Europe are greatly ...

which at first appears to dominate a huge section of the map. However, as the outline is dragged down towards the continent of Africa and the equator, Russia begins to shrink. By the time the ...

If you think about Africa, you maybe think ... Students could create a biome map and add in the three convection cells either side of the equator to help them to understand the impacts of these ...

In school, we learnt that the tropical zone is defined as the hot region of our planet – between the tropics of Cancer ... Regions nearer the equator and the Horn of Africa may expect more ...

A new kind of world map (above) has been developed that shows ... greatly distorts the relative areas of land masses. It makes Africa look tiny, and Greenland and Russia appear huge.

The intersection of the Equator and the Prime Meridian lands somewhere west of the coast of Africa, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. These are coordinates (0,0) in map coordinates system WGS84 ...