During international athletic events like the Olympics and World ... names - just like Nigeria These two countries on ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...

The two names he put on his 1538 world map are the ones we've used ever since: North America and South America. Ringmann didn't have long to live after finishing the Introduction to Cosmography.