Cartography has always shaped worldview and geopolitics, and often for the worse. So it does in the era of Donald Trump.

Renewed interest in Greenland is also highlighting an interesting fact: many of us have been looking at inaccurate depictions of its size. Why are maps wrong about Greenland? USA Today dove into ...

It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...