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 ...

A mosaic of world countries retaining their correct size and shape. Neil Kaye. The Mercator projection was first introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.

Similarly, India appears tiny compared to Greenland on a map, but with a land size of 3,166,414 sq km, it is actually larger. Since India is located near the equator, it appears much smaller in ...

IT’S been revealed that the world map we’ve used for centuries doesn’t actually accurately illustrate the globe’s countries and continents. When this world map was charted i… ...

On the Northern-Southern Hemisphere map, the edge of the map is quite neatly the equator, and both versions include no boundary cuts. The two-sided map. Image credit: J. Richard Gott, Robert ...

Using the map, you can easily see where states and countries are located, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Africa, Europe, Australia, Russia, China, and more.

One of the most common criticisms of the Mercator map is that it exaggerates the size of countries nearer the poles (US, Russia, Europe), while downplaying the size of those near the equator (the ...