Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for early ...

Maps have often misrepresented the real sizes of developing nations, portraying them as smaller than more developed nations.