Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

Greenland’s position in the northern latitudes means the nation’s size and shape is prone to enormous variations in how it is ...

Is Greenland really as big as it seems? Find out more about its true size with five maps that might change your ...

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 ...

Greenland is often touted as the world's largest island that is not a continent, boasting an impressive area of over 836,000 square miles. However, this number can be misleading depending on the map ...

W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

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U.S. saber-rattling has Canada refocusing on Arctic security and long-ignored gaps in defense.