Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

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.

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 ...

All maps face the challenge ... which skews our perception of continents and countries one way or the other. But when you compare square mileage, a whole new world appears. Inspired by this ...

A new kind of world map (above) has been developed that shows the true size of the continents without distorting their shapes too much. The world map you are probably familiar with is called the ...