People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in ...

Coming to Africa, he circled the entire region on the map and revealed that the continent ... countries like Finland, Norway, and Greenland were smaller in size than the ones depicted in common ...

The continent contains no countries, instead it is governed ... Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises ...

three continents – Africa, Europe and South America – six countries – Argentina, Morocco, Paraguay, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay – welcoming and uniting the world while celebrating together ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

Maps are famous for distorting the earth. Because they portray our world in only two dimensions, continents and countries become skewed, as does our perception of how big they truly are.