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Obsessed with Greenland? You, too, may have the wrong map
How maps are drawn can shape the world views of leaders – and the arc of history.
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A view of the Greenlandic flag near the beach in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 29.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Andreas Kluth
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At some point in his life, Mr Donald Trump looked at a world map and saw something he wants – something that, as president of the US, he now says he will take “one way or the other”. It’s Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, one of America’s closest allies.
“I love maps,” Mr Trump once explained. “And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States’.”
