A MERICA HAS a long history of buying land: it acquired more than two-fifths of its current territory that way. But Donald ...

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 ...

New maps of Greenland’s coastal seafloor and bedrock beneath its massive ice sheet show that two to four times as many coastal glaciers are at risk of accelerated melting as previously thought.

But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than Africa, something that is apparent when you look at its actual size to scale ...

The president-elect said he covets Greenland for its size. He could be misinterpreting it based on well-known mapping distortion. ... But Greenland is not nearly as large as it appears on most maps.

But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. Advertisement In fact, it's 14 times smaller than Africa, something that is apparent when you look at its actual ...