Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in countries' sizing. Some nations near the Poles appear significantly larger than they truly are ...

First someone had to conceive the idea of maps, then someone had to conceive the identity of ecosystems, and then someone ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...

Examples of this are average temperature and rainfall maps. Often, maps won’t show compass direction. In the world map above lines of latitude and longitude are used to determine direction ...