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.

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 ...

The ICP Operational Guide, Operational Guidelines and Procedures for Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy, is a compilation of ICP operational material prepared by the ICP Global Office staff ...