Flat maps, aimed at providing a coherent projection of the Earth, are showing countries to be inaccurate in sizing. Some countries are shown to be a lot bigger than they really are in and around ...

A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online ...

A team of three mapmakers, led by J Richard Gott from Princeton University, have come up with a new kind of map that claims to be the most accurate, yet flat, depiction of the world yet.

it is difficult to accurately project this on a two-dimensional map. When the world is flattened to fit on a piece of paper it is distorted. This makes some countries appear bigger than they are ...

As the U.S. election grows closer, so do the chances that the U.S. could join the ranks of nations that have elected women heads of state.

A number of ancient cultures believed that the Earth was flat because, simply, they didn’t know any better. But incredibly, there are people today who still believe that the Earth is flat ...

The United States and Russia combine for 88 percent of all nuclear weapons in the world, with the stock of nukes globally ...

One of Africa's Big Five countries is shown on world maps to be half the size it ... whereas Africa is 30,043,862 sq km. Yet, flat maps show something quite different. On the opposite end of ...

Hungary, Romania, and Bolivia are other countries that use a flat tax rate. According to the World Population Review, nations with a flat tax system tend to have poorly developed social sectors.

Imagine if having children came with more than $150,000 in cheap loans, a subsidized minivan and a lifetime exemption from income taxes. Would people have more kids? The answer, it seems, is no.

This map shows the partial vaccination rate of populations across the world. That progress has been uneven, with stark disparities among countries of different income levels – despite global ...