Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on maps, making them appear different to reality.

A fascinating interactive map shows how different countries really compare in size – a problem that has for centuries stumped cartographers trying to show the spherical Earth on a flat piece of ...

This world map shows countries scaled to the size of their stock markets. By Elena Holodny. 2016-03-26T13:39:00Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon in the shape of ...

The report, published by the World Population Review and featuring an interactive map, analyzed the average bust size of 108 countries around the globe, finding which countries boasted the largest ...

And now we’re closer to it, thanks to a map created by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture that rates food sustainability for different countries around the world.

A map that shows the size of countries according to their market capitalization. ... The US, with a market cap of $19.8 trillion, is the biggest and represents 52% of the world's market cap.

There are 7 billion people on earth and about 7000 languages, but more than half of the world's population speaks one of just 23 languages. This infographic, created by Alberto Lucas Lopéz for ...

But if you want a better idea of the relative size of the world’s landmasses, you need a map that distorts shape but preserves area, like the Peters projection does. Mercator’s original 1569 ...

When you look at a map of the world, it makes sense to assume that Greenland and Africa are similar in size. But in reality, the African continent is 14 times as big as the icy northern land mass.

A new kind of world map (above) has been developed that shows the true size of the continents without distorting their shapes too much. The world map you are probably familiar with is called the ...

THIS revolutionary world map may look unfamiliar – but it has been hailed the most accurate 2D depiction of our globe ever made. The clever ‘origami’-style technique solves a cent… ...