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Greenland Is Only 2.16 Million Square Kilometers, So Why Does It Look As Big As Africa On Maps?World map using the Mercator projection, showing Greenland to be roughly the same size as Africa.

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Greenland Is Only 2.16 Million Square Kilometers, So Why Does It Look As Big As Africa On Maps?World map using the Mercator projection, showing Greenland to be roughly the same size as Africa.
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Greenland Is Only 2.16 Million Square Kilometers, So Why Does It Look As Big As Africa On Maps?

clock-iconJanuary 14, 2026
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The First Map Of America: Juan De La Cosa’s Strange Map Was Missing Until 1832On Juan de la Cosa's 1500 world map, the Americas can be seen as a mysterious green landmass (left).

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The First Map Of America: Juan De La Cosa’s Strange Map Was Missing Until 1832On Juan de la Cosa's 1500 world map, the Americas can be seen as a mysterious green landmass (left).
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The First Map Of America: Juan De La Cosa’s Strange Map Was Missing Until 1832

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How A 500-Year-Old Inaccurate Bible Is Responsible For The Modern WorldCranach's Bible map in the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge

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How A 500-Year-Old Inaccurate Bible Is Responsible For The Modern WorldCranach's Bible map in the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
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How A 500-Year-Old Inaccurate Bible Is Responsible For The Modern World

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The World Map As You Know It Is Misleading – Now Africa Wants To Change ThatMap: Mercator projection of the world

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The World Map As You Know It Is Misleading – Now Africa Wants To Change ThatMap: Mercator projection of the world
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The World Map As You Know It Is Misleading – Now Africa Wants To Change That

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What Is At Coordinate 0,0 On Earth?Location 0,0 on Google Maps.

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What Is At Coordinate 0,0 On Earth?Location 0,0 on Google Maps.
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What Is At Coordinate 0,0 On Earth?

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Why Is North "Up" On Maps?Gold Magnetic old compass on blue world map background

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Why Is North "Up" On Maps?Gold Magnetic old compass on blue world map background
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Why Is North "Up" On Maps?

clock-iconMarch 10, 2025
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Why Was California Depicted As An Island For Centuries?California depicted as an island on a 1650 map.

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Why Was California Depicted As An Island For Centuries?California depicted as an island on a 1650 map.
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Why Was California Depicted As An Island For Centuries?

clock-iconFebruary 12, 2025
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Stunning New Map Shows Landscape Of Supernatural Stories And Folklore From Polish-German HistoryA trimmed image of the map showing the coast of Pomerania and Mecklenburg region with a compass rose in the middle of the sea. The map is designed in the renaissance style and has innumerous coloured dots indicating specific stories.

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Stunning New Map Shows Landscape Of Supernatural Stories And Folklore From Polish-German HistoryA trimmed image of the map showing the coast of Pomerania and Mecklenburg region with a compass rose in the middle of the sea. The map is designed in the renaissance style and has innumerous coloured dots indicating specific stories.
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Stunning New Map Shows Landscape Of Supernatural Stories And Folklore From Polish-German History

clock-iconJanuary 3, 2025
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The Oldest Map Of The Known World Is Filled With Monsters And MysteryThe Babylonian Map of the World on display at the British Museum, London.

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The Oldest Map Of The Known World Is Filled With Monsters And MysteryThe Babylonian Map of the World on display at the British Museum, London.
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The Oldest Map Of The Known World Is Filled With Monsters And Mystery

clock-iconJuly 2, 2024
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Null Island: The Unreal Location That Inhabits The World's Digital MapsThe NOAA weather-monitoring buoy called "Station 13010 - Soul" found at Null Island in the Gulf of Guinea.

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Null Island: The Unreal Location That Inhabits The World's Digital MapsThe NOAA weather-monitoring buoy called "Station 13010 - Soul" found at Null Island in the Gulf of Guinea.
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Null Island: The Unreal Location That Inhabits The World's Digital Maps

clock-iconFebruary 9, 2024
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These Stunning Maps Show The Ocean Drainage Basins Of The World's RiversGrasshopper Geography showing the world's rivers drain into the Atlantic Ocean (green), the Arctic Ocean (blue), the Pacific Ocean (orange), and the Indian Ocean (Pink).

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These Stunning Maps Show The Ocean Drainage Basins Of The World's RiversGrasshopper Geography showing the world's rivers drain into the Atlantic Ocean (green), the Arctic Ocean (blue), the Pacific Ocean (orange), and the Indian Ocean (Pink).
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These Stunning Maps Show The Ocean Drainage Basins Of The World's Rivers

clock-iconNovember 21, 2023
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Is Africa Really Three Times Bigger Than America?A representation of the world map showing the ridges and elevations from mountains and higher topography.

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Is Africa Really Three Times Bigger Than America?A representation of the world map showing the ridges and elevations from mountains and higher topography.
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Is Africa Really Three Times Bigger Than America?

clock-iconSeptember 21, 2023
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How Did People Make Maps Before Satellites Were Invented?A reproduction of the Catalan Atlas from 1375.

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How Did People Make Maps Before Satellites Were Invented?A reproduction of the Catalan Atlas from 1375.
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How Did People Make Maps Before Satellites Were Invented?

clock-iconJuly 28, 2023
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Piri Reis Map: Unraveling The Myths And Realities Of An Ancient ChartA photo of the Piri Reis map.

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Piri Reis Map: Unraveling The Myths And Realities Of An Ancient ChartA photo of the Piri Reis map.
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Piri Reis Map: Unraveling The Myths And Realities Of An Ancient Chart

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Here Be Dragons: Did Maps Of Yore Really Warn Of Mythical Beasts?The words “HIC SVNT DRACONES,” which is Latin for "here be dragons," can be found on the Hunt–Lenox Globe

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Here Be Dragons: Did Maps Of Yore Really Warn Of Mythical Beasts?The words “HIC SVNT DRACONES,” which is Latin for "here be dragons," can be found on the Hunt–Lenox Globe
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Here Be Dragons: Did Maps Of Yore Really Warn Of Mythical Beasts?

clock-iconJune 6, 2023
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