The vast majority of us aren’t using paper maps to chart our course across the ocean anymore, so critics of the Mercator projection argue that the continued use of this style of map gives users a warped sense of the true size of countries—particularly in the case of theAfrican continent...
Today’s infographic comes fromKai Krauseand it shows the true size of Africa, as revealed by the borders of the countries that can fit within the continent’s shape. The African continent has a land area of30.37 million sq km(11.7 million sq mi) — enough to fit in the U.S., China...
Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil) is a country in South America, known for being one of the world's largest countries by both land mass (fifth-biggest) and population (seventh most populous); it is also famous for containing a significant chunk of the Amazon rain forest, the largest of its ...
The worldwide variation in vegetation height is fundamental to the global carbon cycle and central to the functioning of ecosystems and their biodiversity. Geospatially explicit and, ideally, highly resolved information is required to manage terrestrial
Greenland size comparison, map by Benjamin Hell Technically every continent in the world could be considered an island. Australia is 3 times the size of Greenland and is the largest landmass on its continental shelf. Thus, it can be considered an island-continent, but most often it’s ...
The landmass of Éire was known by the Sumerian-Egypt invaders to be the special island designated for the return of the Cosmic Mother and her Edenic Blueprint, and that she alone held the purity and beauty of God which held the immense spiritual power of the cosmic holy spirit to ignite...
The runner-up for biodiversity, Indonesia is home to a whopping 17% of the world’s biodiversity. While it only makes up 1% of the world’s landmass, it has 12% of the planet’s mammal species and 10% of all known plant species. ...
As you consider all of the largest countries by area, you’ll notice that they range greatly in size. It’s important to note that typically a country’s total area includes its landmass and a region of the sea extending out to (or beyond) its continental shelf. But different countries ...
Maps shape our understanding of the world—and in an increasingly interconnected and global economy, this geographic knowledge is more important than ever. Unfortunately, billions of people around the world have a skewed perception of the true size of countries thanks to a cartographic technique cal...
2 of 2 nounPhrases the New World : the western hemisphere especially : the continental landmass of North and South America It must therefore be inferred that the colonizers of the New World… numbered at least 900 individuals … Johanna Nichols Some 30,000 Kuna Indians live in villa...