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 as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than ...

Despite the Russian leader's 2022 declaration, Moscow does not fully control these Ukrainian regions but hopes that the U.S.

Russia, which look far larger in this projection than they actually are. There are other projections that fix this problem, but they look odd and convoluted if you grew up with Mercator maps.

A military blogger said Russian forces holding Demidovka "simply left it, as a result of which the enemy occupied" the village.

Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

So, Antarctica, Greenland and Russia, look far larger in the Mercator projection. Many of the maps we use today are still based on that projection. However, USA Today noted that other projections ...