Greenland appears larger than it really is. Keep reading on The WiC Project Lifestyle Blog & Miriam's Boutique: Home Goods, ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

How distorting are map projections? Here’s what four commonly used systems of projection do to a human head. From the 1921 publication Elements in Map Projection comes this striking demonstration of ...

MR. STEERS's useful little book on map projections, the third edition of which has recently been issued, is written for those students of geography who have only the most elementary knowledge of ...

The Mercator map, created in 1596 to help sailors navigate, is also why so many people think Greenland is larger than China. Now you can better appreciate how two-dimensional maps mess with geography, ...

New Delhi: Member states of the African Union, on 15 August, signed a petition for the world to ‘reject’ the Mercator map projection and accept a more equitable projection that “more accurately ...

Peter Rogerson is a member of the American Association of Geographers. People have long been intrigued by figuring out the center of the places where we live. You’re probably familiar with the concept ...

New Zealand's stunning beauty and rich Māori culture are often overlooked on world maps due to its geographic isolation and the limitations of map projections like Mercator. This recurring omission, ...