Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory much larger than it is.

An incredibly detailed explanation of why this international nightmare came to be.

At first glance, Greenland appears almost as large as the entire continent of Africa on many world maps. In reality, Greenland is about 14 times smaller than Africa.

These maps show two different approaches to depicting Greenland. The left map is an orthographic projection, emulating a globe. The right map is a Mercator projection, which exaggerates the sizes of ...