“Europe is a stupid idea for a continent,” says Jonn Elledge, author of A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps. “Its boundaries with Asia are mainly ...

It shows all seven continents, Europe ... so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years. They used to be hand-drawn to scale ...

According to that new article, this new world map is not only the most accurate ever created, but it actually showcases the proper size of the landmasses and continents that make up our planet.

The continent contains no countries ... Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps.