You might think you know all of Earth’s continents, but there’s one that has remained hidden for millions of years. Zealandia ...

and it marked the official discovery of a new continent: Antarctica. It also cemented the modern idea, upheld by most maps across the English-speaking world, that there are seven major landmasses.

They say we know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the bottom of the ocean, but it still might surprise you ...

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world map we've used for centuries doesn't ...

The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017.

Our understanding of Earth's continents might need an update based ... As scientists continue to investigate, the very map of the world we thought we knew may change. Note: Materials provided ...

According to that new article, this new world map is not only the most accurate ever created, but it actually showcases the proper size of the landmasses and continents that make up our planet.

Courtesy John Nelson, Esri Another commonly misplaced continent is Africa ... it appears to be much smaller on Mercator maps. Thinking about the world in two-dimensions also distorts our ideas ...