Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play with scale, shift vantage points, or pull certain details forward so the familiar suddenly looks different.

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions suggest.

Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in countries' sizing. Some nations near the Poles appear significantly larger than they truly are, while others seem much smaller, and distances between various land ...

Two decades ago, Google co-founder Larry Page had an idea that would forever change the way we navigate the world. "Larry drove down some of these streets with a video camera and handed it to someone and said, 'Hey, what can you do with this?'" said Maria ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ring that circles the earth’s edges. They are wrong.

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the map reshaped the Bible into a Renaissance book and spread new ideas about territorial organization as literacy expanded.

Scientists have completed the first-ever global, high-resolution map of the world’s shallow tropical coral reefs. When combined with an integrated tool that tracks global coral bleaching events in near-real-time, the new resource provides a comprehensive ...

Honduras President Xiomara Castro has voiced her concerns about United States' President-elect Donald Trump's plans for mass deportations, becoming another world leader who could disrupt his proposals, and Newsweek has compiled a map of countries with a ...

Have you ever tried smashing a ball into a flat rectangle? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world ...