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Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.
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Greenland Looks So Huge on Maps, Here’s the Distortion That’s Been Trickling Us All Along!
Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style. A recent study reveals how this distortion influences our perception ...
Equal Earth is designed to show countries at their true relative size, in a UN push led by Togo with African Union backing at U.N.
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