Posted: June 16, 2025 | Last updated: June 16, 2025 Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea.

Are you sitting down? The world map you’re probably most familiar with has been misleading you in a subtle but important way: many land masses appear either smaller or larger than they actually are.

From those depicting the devastation of rising sea levels to displays of population density across the world, these maps will ...

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 ...