The most glaring example of this distortion is Greenland, which appears to be about the same size as Africa on the map, but in reality, the continent is nearly 14-and-a-half times larger.

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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 ...