Donald Trump suggested military action to occupy Greenland, citing security concerns Mercator map projection distorts size, making Greenland appear much larger than reality Greenland covers 2.16 ...

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland’s location between North America and Russia gives it ...

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland's location between North America and Russia gives it ...

Almost 100,000 people around the world played an online map projection game that asked them to judge land areas. Their guesses showed that most people’s inner picture of the planet is closer to ...

You’ve probably seen it a thousand times: a map on the wall, north at the top, south down below. It feels so natural that we barely think about it. But the truth is that this wasn’t inevitable. For ...

Every day, The Overhead Wire collects national and international news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they post some of the most popular stories to Greater ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...