Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy. The ...

Greenland is sovereign in everything other than defence and foreign policy, but by being part of the Kingdom of Denmark, it ...

For years, Europe has responded to Donald Trump with a mixture of eye-rolling, damage control, and hope that the nightmare ...

Pituffik Space Base, the US military base in Greenland. Credit: Kalshi, via Greenland has returned to the center of public ...

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

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

Africa’s official maps are stuck in the past, often either outdated, incomplete—or both. But governments don’t have the budgets to fix them, making it difficult to complete projects as complex as ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...