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W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...

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For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination of President Donald Trump. But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of ...

The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to get rid of it for good. Last week, the African Union, a continental union of ...

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