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

Greenland covers an area about three times the size of Texas and is home to 56,000 people, mostly Greenlandic Inuits.

Far beyond ice, Greenland is a key piece in world geopolitics, combining mineral wealth and military presence in the United ...

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 ...

One way or the other,” President Donald Trump told Congress, the United States needs to “get” Greenland, strategically ...

Since World War II, American forces have been stationed on the island. Today, from a remote outpost, they watch the skies.

More: Distorted maps have misled you: Greenland isn't as big as you think. But Greenland’s population of roughly 56,000 is a small fraction of the Scandinavian country. For context, the least ...

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 ...