Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

While The Journey to the Center of the Earth is a great book and film, its physical location has been much debated—until now.

It’s true that the landmass isn’t exactly small, but its true size is nowhere near that of the whole African continent. As it turns out, the map we’ve long relied on to depict the world isn ...

Princess Cruises announces a 129-day world cruise departing Fort Lauderdale on January 6, 2027, with shorter options available. The cruise will visit 20 countries across three continents ...

Contrary to the map ... the equator. This map shows that in reality, Brazil is almost as large as Canada, even though it appears to be much smaller on Mercator maps. Thinking about the world ...

The ocean connects the continents ... far from the equator. As you might have noticed from the globe's example, the string takes the shortest path, however, seeing it on a 2D world map makes ...

Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very detailed map of everything beneath the millions ...

The first, the Mercator projection map, shows everything where it should be, but it makes landmasses further from the equator ... continents. As such, it didn’t provide an accurate view of the ...

Columbus was proven wrong at the start of the 16th century thanks to Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who revealed it was actually an entirely separate continent. Because previous world maps ...