Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in countries' sizing. Some nations near the Poles appear significantly larger than they truly are ...

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 ... The flat map, created by Flemish ...

Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across ... at the Equator — meaning that, though countries are roughly the correct size ...

and the researchers hope it will become the accepted world map. “Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat maps,” said J. Richard Gott, emeritus professor of astrophysics at ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A fascinating interactive map shows how different countries really compare in size – a problem that has for centuries stumped ...

Languages: English, Spanish Think about a map ... of countries that are closer to the poles. This demonstrates you can't fit shapes on a sphere back together again once you put them on the flat." ...

The biggest challenge for cartographers is that it is impossible to portray reality of spherical world on a flat map ...