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 ...

Similarly, India appears tiny compared to Greenland on a map, but with a land size of 3,166,414 sq km, it is actually larger. Since India is located near the equator, it appears much smaller in ...

Africa is around 14 times larger than Greenland and yet on the map both are almost same size. Brazil is more than five times larger than Alaska, yet Alaska is larger than Brazil on the map.

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, ... Greenland: massive on a Mercator world map, but here's its true size between Africa and South America. TheTrueSize. 12 / 12.

Maps are wonderful inventions, but they can cause their fair share of trouble, from showing you different borders depending on which country you’re viewing from, to sending GPS users into rivers ...

This map shows the average surface temperature of Greenland in April 2016 relative to the average April temperature from 2001 to 2010. It was much warmer this year. Map by NASA Earth Observatory ...

The size of the drainage basin the team discovered is very large, at around 450,000 km2, and accounts for about 20 per cent of the total land area of Greenland (including islands).

Greater Adria was a giant landmass the size of Greenland that broke off from the supercontinent Gondwana. This map shows the continent as it existed 140million years ago.

But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than Africa, something that is apparent when you look at its actual size to scale ...

For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination of President Donald Trump. But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of ...