Discover 25 airline routes that look too dangerous to be real. Explore extreme landings, mountain passes, and short runways.

Picture a world map. Almost everyone picturing one is imagining the same thing: a ...

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Geography has a way of quietly humbling even the most seasoned travelers. You’ve crossed time zones, navigated airports on ...

A bizarre map of Africa recently appeared in a U.S. government presentation at an international conference in Brazil. Nigeria ...

The incident of the misplaced map matters because it reveals a deeper question: How well does the West truly understand Africa? The issue is not simply about getting a country's location right, but ...

↑ Mercator projection (top) and Equal Earth projection (bottom). Take a look at them side by side. Even though it is the same Earth, the sizes of the continents look completely different, don't they?

Maps distort reality because the Earth is a three-dimensional sphere, and any attempt to represent it on a flat surface requires compromise. It's like trying to make a rectangle out of an orange peel.

A global experiment has shown that the kind of world map people see systematically alters how large countries feel, placing Greenland among the most exaggerated places on Earth. That distorted sense ...

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Noah Giansiracusa dispels a myth about the world's largest island. In Slate, he explains why a Mercator projection makes Greenland look far larger than it is, and why this matters. "While the choice ...