Greenland covers an area about three times the size of Texas and is home to 56,000 people, mostly Greenlandic Inuits.

It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...