Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't ...

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

shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world map we've used for centuries doesn't actually accurately illustrate the globe's countries and continents.

An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504 ... Hessler described two types of people in the rare-book and map world: those who get overly excited at any new finding ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world ... map is so proportionally accurate that you can fold it up into a three-dimensional globe.

On a typical world map, Canada is a vast nation. Home to six time zones, its endless plains spread from ocean to ocean, dominating great swathes of the northern half of the globe. But, in reality ...

As the world is gripped by the spread of Ebola and the possibility of a deadly pandemic, a map is highlighting outbreaks in real-time. The continually-updating map of the world shows outbreaks ...