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World map shows which countries once shared borders

Imagine if Greenland bordered Portugal, Brazil no longer had a coastline, and Tibet suddenly lay by the sea. It sounds ...
Popular Mechanics

This World Map Is So Accurate It Folds Into a Globe

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...
Fast Company

All World Maps Lie. So Which One Should We Use?

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014, the ...
New Atlas

Size does matter: Authagraph World Map turns the Earth into a rectangle using tetrahedrons

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...
The Conversation

Five maps that will change how you see the world

Donald Houston does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

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 ...