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Greenland’s position in the northern latitudes means the nation’s size and shape is prone to enormous variations in how it is ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland’s location between North America and Russia gives it ...

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U.S. saber-rattling has Canada refocusing on Arctic security and long-ignored gaps in defense.

In reality, while still being very large, it's substantially smaller than Western Australia - and not too much bigger than Queensland.

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Donald Trump has a lot of odd fixations, both as a person and as a president. He tends to focus his tunnel vision on things he wants: the demolishing of the White House’s East Wing, the renaming of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump’s ambition of seizing Greenland — and suspicions that he covets the Arctic territory because he ...