Why the World Just Voted to “Correct the World Map” – And Why the Map of the World You Grew Up With Is Wrong
Look at almost any world map you’ve ever seen; the one on your classroom wall, in your atlas, on Google Maps. Greenland looks about the same size as Africa. It isn’t. Africa is roughly 14 times bigger than Greenland. Not a little bigger. Fourteen times. That’s not a rounding error. It’s one of the most…