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

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about ... A view shows the city of Nuuk, Greenland, February 9, 2025. Greenland is still pretty big. Depending on how you define its political ...

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 as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than ...