Mr Neil Kaye, a climate data scientist at Met Office, created an accurate world map that shows countries near the northern hemisphere are much smaller than people typically think.

The above map shows where in the world Google has collected and published street view data, and where it hasn't.It's both a stunning visualization of how much of the globe has been converted into ...

And then there's the Mercator projection, the map drawn by a Flemish cartographer back in 1569 that remains the go-to textbook illustration of our world despite not being very accurate.