When you look at a world map, do you ever wonder if the sizes of countries are really what they seem? If you’ve ever thought ...

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 ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good ...

At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map and saw something he wants – something that, as president of the US, he now says he will take “one way or the other.” It’s Greenland, an ...

In 1569, Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator drew such a world map, using what has ... look far larger in the Mercator ...

Donald Trump wants the United States to buy Greenland for its strategically vital resources, to bolster US security and give ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ...