Though Minecraft's world map is massive, it does not take up a lot of space on a device. The game's worlds are essentially only the information of the seed and what has been tweaked by the player.

The map of the world has been redrawn in a new atlas which uses population rather than land mass to illustrate the size and shape of each country. Researchers from the University of Sheffield created ...

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...