and North America. Nations are also depicted inaccurately on Mercator Projection maps, including Greenland, which looks nearly the size of Africa on Mercator Projection maps when in reality the ...

The world maps that have hung on school walls in Boston and around the country portray North America as larger than Africa (but it’s not) and Alaska as more mammoth than Mexico (also untrue).

An incredible map shows the “true” size of Africa with China ... Because of this, land masses like Russia and North America appear enormous in comparison to central Asia, Africa and South ...

In a fascinating exposé, a visual campaign reveals that the familiar world map we all grew up with is more illusion than fact ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Forests cover some 3.9 billion hectares (or 9.6 billion acres) which is ...

Our maps have been lying to us for centuries ... Strebe/Wikimedia Commons) In reality though, Africa is larger than all of North America, and the Antarctic is about as big as Australia. That’s the ...