Some of them go a bit further and are quite a free interpretation of what Earth might look like ... and interesting maps simultaneously. One of them, showing the world without oceans, can be ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...

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 ...

Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like. 8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world as it is now ...

This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the world's major cities. Produced by Alex Kuzoian More from News We learned last year that many of the effects of climate change ...

One of the most popular world map projections is known as the Mercator ... The land down under From hopping kangaroo to beautiful reefs, we take a look at some of Australia's wildlife and natural ...

This would dramatically reshape the continents and drown many of the world's major cities. More from Politics Many of the effects of climate change are irreversible. Sea levels have been rising at ...