How large is Greenland, really? Your map may be deceiving you

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...
Yahoo

Distorted maps have misled you: Greenland isn't as big as you think.

For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination of President Donald Trump. But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of ...

Why Greenland looks bigger on the map than it really is

At first glance, Greenland appears almost as large as the entire continent of Africa on many world maps. In reality, ...
Hartford Courant

Campaigners want to change the world map to show Africa is bigger

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in ...