The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

On a Gall-Peters map, Africa looms large, while Europe shrinks to a more proportionate size. This view challenges long-standing visual biases ingrained by the Mercator projection.

Tiny Africa, Massive Europe: Why World Maps are Lying to You | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G The world map you grew up with is wrong- and it’s not just a small mistake. The Mercator projection, ...

Dublin, June 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Europe - Major Datacentres & Connectivity 2025" map from La Tene Maps has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Extensively revised this ...

Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern Eurasia between 120,000 and 60,000 years ago. But the routes they took ...

The European Central Bank cut some of its growth and inflation projections on Thursday as the fallout from a global trade war is likely to prove a drag for the 20-nation euro zone.

Ukraine hit dozens of long-range bomber aircraft across Russia on June 1 with drones that were smuggled in wooden shipping crates carried on truck beds and then launched from nearby locations. The ...

Mount Etna eruption mapped: How often does Italy’s ‘Lady of the Rings’ volcano erupt? Mount Etna, on the east coast of Sicily, between the cities of Messina and Catania, is one of the world ...

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> Politics Papastavrou: “The dividing lines on the energy map of Europe are clear and must cease to exist” The Minister of Environment and Energy and the Deputy Minister Nikos Tsafos are ...