Greenland's mineral riches are an increasing focus of the U.S. and, as the vice president recently warned, America's rivals.

Cartography has always shaped worldview and geopolitics, and often for the worse. So it does in the era of Donald Trump.

It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about ... A view shows the city of Nuuk, Greenland, February 9, 2025. Greenland is still pretty big. Depending on how you define its political ...

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 ...