The previous map, created in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigational purposes, warps the sizes of continents and countries. Africa is three times bigger than North America ...

Although it distorts countries’ shapes, this way of drawing a world map avoids exaggerating the size of developed nations in Europe and North America and reducing the size of less developed ...

A ranking of 25 countries shows that the West is in a precarious spot A short history of Greenland, in six maps Various countries have tried to occupy the sparsely populated island.