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

The world's largest island has its own system of fjords, lakes and black-sand beaches. What to know about the size of the ...

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

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 ...

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.

On many world maps, Greenland and Africa can look almost the same size. But the reality is very different. Africa covers an ...