Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in countries' sizing ... to be about the same size as Africa on the map, but in reality, the continent ...

It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big ...

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