The most widely used map in the U.S. today is the Mercator projection map. Mercator maps often appear in businesses, in libraries and in classrooms where geography is taught. This popularity is ...

The map shared online moderately exaggerated the size of Texas; however it was more or less an accurate representation of the state's vastness. A photo shared to Facebook on Oct. 11, 2024, claimed to ...

Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map ...

There's nothing like a map to help explain the world. But some maps do a better job of it than others. Which is why Boston's public schools have adopted new world maps for some of their classrooms.