African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...

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 ...

As the Earth warms, new shipping routes from one side of the globe to the other are opening around Greenland, making the vast ...

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