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30 Real World Maps That Show The True Size Of Countries

Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was a challenge for early cartographers. So, a Flemish geographer and cartographer named Gerardus Mercator came up with a solution for the most accurate world map.

In 1569, he designed an atlas that could be accurately used for navigation purposes. Still, the downside was that his system distorted the size of objects depending on their position relative to the equator.

Because of this, landmasses like Antarctica and Greenland appear much bigger than they actually are. Though there are around 40 types of map projections, from conical to polyhedral and retroazimuthal, depicting the true size of the world, this one is still used the most because of its convenience and simplicity, even by Google Maps. None of these projections can be titled the real world map because they all depict the same Earth through a different lens.

So, what does the real-world map look like? To show how incorrect our understanding of countries by size is, a website called thetruesize.com lets you move land masses into different locations. This helps you understand the true size of countries.

We at Bored Panda played a bit with this tool, and what we found will change your perspective on our planet’s geography. The website lets you juxtapose two countries together to compare their relative size.

Here’s what the real size of countries looks like.

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US Moved Down Next To Australia Looks Unbelievably Small

Map comparing the true size of the United States and Australia.

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166points

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Russia On The Equator Is Not A Giant Bear Anymore

Map illustrating the true size of Russia compared to the equator, showing positional distortion.

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148points

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If Romania Was An Island In The Arctic Ocean

Map illustrating the true size of Romania compared to the Arctic Ocean.

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115points

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Australia Is Way Bigger Than You May Think - It Covers Almost The Whole Of Europe

Map comparing Australia's true size in different global positions.

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110points

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Is Africa Bigger Than it Appears on the Map?

Yes, Africa is significantly larger than it appears on many traditional maps. An interesting fact about the Mercator projection is that it distorts the sizes of landmasses as they get farther from the equator. This distortion disproportionately enlarges countries near the poles while diminishing the size of equatorial regions. As a result, Africa, which straddles the equator, is typically misrepresented as much smaller than it is in reality.

In reality, Africa covers an expansive area of about 11.7 million square miles. Its vastness is often underestimated on conventional maps, leading to misconceptions about its size and significance. On an accurate world map, Africa would appear three times the size of US.

If Brazil Was In Asia It Would Be Massive

Map showing the true size of Brazil compared to Russia, with Brazil's actual position in pink and overlaid on Asia in blue.

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89points

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Indonesia Would Spread Almost Across The Whole Of Russia

Map showing Indonesia's true size compared to Russia, highlighting country size differences on a world map.

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86points

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Greenland Is Not So Big When Compared To USA And Brazil

Map showing the true size of Greenland compared to the USA and the equator.

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74points

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When You Move Canada To South America

Map showing Canada's actual size overlay on South America, illustrating the true size of countries.

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69points

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What is the Most Realistic World Map?

The AuthaGraph is considered to be the real world map that shows the true size of countries.

Unlike the Mercator projection, which distorts the sizes of landmasses, the AuthaGraph projection aims to maintain equal area property. This means that the relative size of continents and countries is preserved accurately. This is essential for understanding the true proportions of different regions of the world.

The AuthaGraph projection minimizes distortion by dividing the Earth’s surface into 96 regions, which are then transferred to a tetrahedron. This tetrahedron is unfolded and flattened to create a two-dimensional map.

While no projection can be perfect in preserving both area and shape, the AuthaGraph projection comes really close to showing the real size of countries.

California Moved Onto The UK Shows They're Quite Similar In Size

Map overlay showing true size comparison of California and the United Kingdom.

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China Placed On Top Of Russia

Map showing the true size of China compared to Russia, with highlighted areas indicating China's actual and overlaid positions.

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69points

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Australia Moved Onto North America Becomes REALLY Big

Map illustrating the true size of Australia compared to North America, with overlays for size comparison.

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Japan Can Stretch Almost Across Canada

Map showing Japan's true size, with overlays comparing its size and position over Canada.

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Why is Greenland So Big on the Map?

Greenland appears disproportionately large on the maps due to an inherent distortion in translating the Earth’s three-dimensional, spherical surface onto a two-dimensional map.

The Mercator projection is widely used for navigational purposes because it preserves angles and, therefore, helps sailors navigate straight lines or constant compass headings. However, it doesn’t preserve area or size accurately, particularly as you move away from the equator.

It exaggerates the sizes of landmasses as they approach the poles, causing polar regions to appear much larger than they are in reality.

Greenland is situated near the North Pole, and as a result, it is significantly distorted on Mercator maps. In reality, Greenland is much smaller than it appears on traditional maps. It covers an area of approximately 850,000 square miles, making it only slightly larger than Saudi Arabia (830,000 square miles).

#13

Antarctica Is Not So Much Larger Than Brazil

Map comparing the true size of Antarctica to other countries on a world map background.

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This Is How India Changes As You Move It North

Map showing the true size of India compared to Russia, highlighting India's actual position and size overlay.

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Canada Moved Down Onto The US Reveals That Both Countries Are Pretty Much The Same Size

Map showing the true size of Canada compared to the United States, highlighting Canada's larger geographical area.

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How This All Works

Diagram showing 3D model, UV map, and texture illustrating the true size of countries on a world map.

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Deimantas Rojus

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Is the True Size Map Accurate?

The True Size Of… is an interactive tool that lets you visually compare landmass. It provides a more accurate representation of landmass sizes and minimizes distortion.

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USA Compared To Europe

Map showing the true size of the USA overlaid on Europe and parts of Asia.

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If Poland Was An Island In The Norwegian Sea

Map showing Poland's actual size and position, with a comparison to its location in the Norwegian Sea for perspective.

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The US Could Easily Cover The Whole Of Canada But It Becomes Much Smaller When It's Moved South

Map depicting the true size of the U.S. compared in positions over Canada, its actual site, and on the equator.

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22points

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When You Move Mexico Onto Greenland Its Size Increases Dramatically

Map showing the true size of Mexico compared to Greenland, highlighting distortion in size perception.

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21points

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If Lithuania Was An Island In The Barents Sea And Artic Ocean

Map illustrating the true size and position of a country compared to its displacement in the Arctic and Barents Sea.

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Moving UK North And South Reveals How It Actually Compares To Other Countries

Map showing the true size of the UK compared to Greenland and the Equator, highlighting the distortion in world maps.

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Democratic Republic Of The Congo When You Move It North

Map comparing true country sizes: Congo overlay on Greenland.

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How The Size Of Russia Changes As You Move It South

Map illustrating the true size of Russia compared to Australia.

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#27 Tiny Iceland Compared To New York

Comparison map showing the true size of New York in orange and Iceland in blue.

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16points

Dennis

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Tiny Iceland Compared To Its Giant Neighbor Greenland

Map showing true size of Iceland compared to Greenland, highlighting size discrepancies on world maps.

Final score:

13points

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#27

Let Me Just Make This Easy; The Issue Is Peters (accurate) Vs Mercator (inaccurate).

Comparison of Peters and Mercator projections showing the true size of countries.

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13points

Tabar

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Alaska Doesn't Seem So Big When Compared To 48 Contiguous States

Map showing true size of Alaska in orange at its actual position and in blue next to the contiguous United States.

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#29

Texas Moved On Top Of Alaska Shows That They're Almost The Same Size

Map illustrating the true size of Texas overlaid on Alaska.

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#30

You Cannot Make Legitimate Size Comparison Unless You Are Doing So On An Equal Area Map

World map using Hobo-Dyer projection, showing true size of countries with colorful borders and labels.

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10points

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Amanda Panda 8 years ago

Whoever made this originally, was for sure, a bored panda.

30points

Intensive Panda 8 years ago

This is widely known phenomenon: the problem with our world maps is that we try to map a round object on a flat surface. As far as I know, there is no mathematical method to map it 1:1. Because of this setup, our view on countries on world maps are distorted. Also nice fact: depending on where you buy your map, it's different everywhere, as each country places itself in the middle of the map

13points

Gergana Hristova 8 years ago

I'm amazed at how ignorant people in the comments are. :( sorry

9points

Serena Olij 8 years ago

Too bad the countries of the African continent are so underrepresented in the compared photo's. As far as I know they represent a very big part of the world in actual size!

5points

Milos Gajic 8 years ago

It is a funny and tragic thing at the same time that SO many people don't understand how the geographic projection works. This is elementary school knowledge people, at least where I come from - in fifth grade when children start learning geography they are taught the basics first - like shape of the Earth, the map projections, rotation and revolution of the Earth and it's consequences, etc...

3points

Stan McMunich 8 years ago

Thank you Mr Mercator for giving generations a completely wrong view of the world.

2points

-- 8 years ago

And Singapore is still too small to be seen in any of them

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Jon Lisle-Summers 8 years ago

All maps have a distortion of some kind.

2points

Lou Wow 8 years ago

I don't fully understand this. Can the publisher please explain? I get how California is about the the same size as the UK but the rest are puzzling.

2points

Laurentiu Jinga 7 years ago

I don't get it. In #28 (Alaska next to the 48 Contiguous States) Alaska (moved South) looks like half (of 48 Contiguous States) and in #29 Texas (moved North) alone looks as the whole Alaska? It shouldn't scale with the same percentage if you move/compare to the North or South of it's original position?

1point

Kelsey Clinton 7 years ago

I think you failed to properly explain how you've moved countries around but that they don't actually appear that way in real life (like the Indonesia on Russia map.) I can see a lot of people coming to this page, not reading the intro paragraph, and just looking at the maps and thinking "Wow, Romania's huge!" You really need to make sure that people understand what they're looking at, that intro paragraph does not make it clear for most people that these are not actual sizes. Trust me, my 8th grade students would absolutely NOT read that intro and just look at the maps and take them as fact.

1point

Timotius Valentino 7 years ago

Thank's for this article Very interesting

1point

saulw7 8 years ago

Me parece barabte raro, ya que la actuak tecnología satelital permitiría hacer una buena escala geográfica. Sin necesidad de usar ese método de adaptación.

1point

Kevin Kuokkanen 8 years ago

This is the only map you need to know about :) Flat_earth-1.png

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Rosangela Carchen Cezario 2 months ago

Hi, I don't believe in a globe, I'm a FLAT EARTH believer, so I also believe that all these maps are wrong. I just wonder if some days we will find a true map of the Earth so people will not be deceived anymore.

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Bill Bolton 4 years ago

Globes have accurate proportionality. But it is difficult to fold one and store it. Although there are some one may deflate.

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Josep Barceló 5 years ago

Perhaps too many examples of the very same concept. The Mercator projection distorts sizes. That's all.

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Steve Milenkovic 6 years ago

BORING PANDA IS STUPID,LIKE IT WAS SELLING OF ALASKA FOR US RUSSIANS,OR REVOLUTION,BECAUSE FINLAND UKRAINE POLAND,BELARUS KAZAKHSTAN,ETC.,OR 100 YEARS BEFORE.....LIKE THEY DIDNT,BUT EXPLAIN ME PANDA IN KALIFORNIA,THERE IS STILL OLD RUSSIAN MILITARY KAMP..DID YOU HEARD OF THAT MIRACLE??,NOW RUSSIA HAS 17 MILION SQUARE KM AND 11 TIME ZONES,SO IT BIGEST,COUNTRY,WITH STILL ONE OF BEST STATE SEC. ANALITIC, SERVICES,AND ONE OF GREATEST PATRIOTISM AFTER ALL IN RUSSIA NOW LIWES 147 MIL PEOPLE,ONE MAN ON 1000KM2,OR MORE?BIGEST OIL,GAS,WATER,URANIUM ETC.AFTER MONGOLS,KATHOLICS,FALL OF FIRST EMPIRE WITH IVAN THE 4TH,SO CALLED TERIBLE,AND TURKS,OTOMAN EMPIRE,PERSIAN EMPIRE,NAPOLEON,KRIMEAN WAR,WW1.,KOMUNIST REVOLUTION,FALL OF ROMANOVS EMPIRE,STALIN LENIN,USSR,WW2,--HITLER,...CHERCHILL,US,COLD WAR,ETC..RUSSIA ALWAYAS,WON,SO IT WAS THE BIGEST COUNTRY,ONLY WILL RISE,NOT FALL,SERTANLY NOT APART,?OR BECAUSE SOME CASE LIKE CHECNIYA, 33 000 KM2....

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Elisha Barren 6 years ago

You forgot Africa and have massively bigger it is than some countries and continents.

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Kevin Crawford 7 years ago

Bottom line: Buy a globe if you want to see how countries really compare, size wise, to one another. Because a flat map distorts the sizes of continents the further they are from the equator.

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Gjuro Kladaric 7 years ago

but, but, but... lands get "higher" on maps if out of equatorial areas... but things on this maps do get "wider", which simply is not true...

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Maciek Dzierzawski 7 years ago

Fascinating!

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Krystine Patterson 7 years ago

This still won't teach Americans where countries are.

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Antonio González Trück 7 years ago

As far as I'm concerned all countries have the same world map.

0points

Robin Lupinacci 7 years ago

Just allow that the lower the latitude more accurate the representation. On Mercator an object at 40 degrees is less accurately represented than one at 15 degrees latitude.

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Michael Gary 7 years ago

As much as I love maps, why not just make a list of countries showing total square kilometers.....

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Jason Rider 7 years ago

if you want to see countries as they are sized exactly relative to each other, buy a globe

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udi 7 years ago

Any attempt to project the surface of a sphere onto a rectangle necessarily involves involves distortions. There are hundreds of different projections, but one recent projection unusually preserves both the relative size and shape of countries, which people might find interesting: http://www.authagraph.com/projects/description/【作品解説】記事01/?lang=en

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Vikky Sahil 7 years ago

Easy way to learn worldmap.....Great!!

0points

Da Vid 7 years ago

Do not ignore the fact that I actually came on here to read comments !! Lol 👌🏻

0points

Sunshine Asomugha 7 years ago

They didn't want to touch the misrepresentation of Africa's size. 🤔

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Marco Fogaça 7 years ago

👏👏👏

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Erik Baard 7 years ago

Have you folks ever seen a globe?

0points

Dan Bellerive 7 years ago

#29 "Almost the same size"? We're 2.5x their square mileage..

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ステファンメートル 7 years ago

bzdury

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JC Champalaune 7 years ago

This pictures are still misleading (the other way around compared to "usual" maps). For example, China (10 billion km2) is far from being as big as Russia (17). Here it looks about 80% of its size

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Nicholas JEROME 7 years ago

who made this c**p ?

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Bill Richardson 7 years ago

They forgot to include Alaska with the US, and it is huge!

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Dark Matter 7 years ago

It's interesting you didn't compare the continent of Africa, (just the Congo), hum?

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Raymundo WW 7 years ago

Hoax? Rank - Country - Area Sq Km 1Russia17,075,200 2Canada9,984,670 3United States of America9,826,630 4China9,596,960 5Brazil8,511,965 6Australia7,686,850 7India3,287,590 8Argentina2,766,890 9Kazakhstan2,717,300 10Algeria2,381,740

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Andrew Kennerley 7 years ago

If my granny had balls she'd be my grandad...

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Andrew Kennerley 7 years ago

If my granny had balls she'd be my grandad ...

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Francis Castiglione 7 years ago

so your saying Sth Africa is actually the same width as the Nth of Africa, and Sth America is wide as the United States? what a load of B.S

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Edna Guerrero 7 years ago

why don't you move countries of South America to the northem of earth? still doesn't work for you?

0points

Marco Andreas 8 years ago

This is why I prefer to use maps with the "Gall–Peters projection" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall–Peters_projection

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Davo Yoshibima 8 years ago

i would like to see Sudan, Zaire ,Nigeria or even south Africa put on this scale

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LeFlyingSaucer 8 years ago

F**k Mercartor!

0points

Ferod. Rosheev 8 years ago

это наебалово, в России 10 часовых поясов, а в Африке 4 но по этой карте они почти равны. Омерикосы опять хуйню подсунули всем - хавайте.

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Carmen Jason 8 years ago

Nice, Africa is completely left out in these comparisons! :(

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Santhosh Zeus 8 years ago

india map is depicted wrongly . Remember 7-year jail, Rs 100 crore fine for wrong depiction of India map, Check the link below http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/7-year-jail-Rs-100-crore-fine-for-wrong-depiction-of-India-map/articleshow/52133221.cms

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Hanam Hamid 8 years ago

I am not so sure with your facts. How did this becomes a fact though?#curious

0points

Alexandra Kovacova 8 years ago

This is amazing and so weird to see at the same time.

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ҸӲӅӐӪӋӒӍЪ ҶЎԈӚҨӴӔӍӦԜЪ 8 years ago

РОССИЯ САМАЯ ЛУЧШАЯ СТРАНА НА СВЕТЕ! И ВСЕ ОСТАЛЬНЫЕ СТРАНЫ НАМ ЗАВИДУЮТ! 57971f996536f.jpg

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Veronica Daze 8 years ago

Yes but Canada's population is less than the state of California and a lot of their land is uninhabitable.

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Alex Green 8 years ago

Maps are too confusing, I barely even understand any of this lol

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Melissa Herrera 8 years ago

I dont grt this

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Vincent Jay 8 years ago

Very interesting.

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Ajiesh Thuvanoor Kayi 8 years ago

thetruesize.com will automatically project maps

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Ajiesh Thuvanoor Kayi 8 years ago

truesize.com will automatically project maps

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Matthias Pedro Coscoñas 8 years ago

Interested people out there, there is a much better way of mapping the world, called 'Dymaxion Map' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map), which was developed by Buckminster Fuller. He even considered not having a South nor North on his map as it is equated with 'rich/more developed North' and 'poor/undevelopped South'.

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Janos David 8 years ago

why there is no Taiwan region in Chinese territory?

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milou 8 years ago

http://www.petersmap.com

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Pemberton 8 years ago

I'd like to see the UK placed in East Asia (or next to Japan). Once my British friend said, 'Sometimes British people say Japan is a tiny island country, but in fact the UK is much smaller than Japan.' Is Great Britain (the main island of the UK) bigger than the Korean peninsula?

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Ridwan Khan 8 years ago

well to get the most accurate figure... i divide land area (sq mile) of the apparent largest by the smallest... atleast u will see by how many times the largest is bigger than the smallest

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Sara Jane 8 years ago

Why do they still look regular size on a globe? The earth is round, a globe is round so why are the countries on a globe the way we are used to seeing them printed?

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Ana Weyland 8 years ago

And what is the purpose of this?

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Andrea Mackey 8 years ago

I wonder why they did not do Africa. I think people would of been blown out of their mind I'd they saw how big Africa is.

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Callie Giffin 8 years ago

This is cool but I don't full understand it... Could someone explain

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Hans 8 years ago

Quite a nice idea! Some geographical knowledge always helps...and this is fascinating at the same time.

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Grace Barclay 8 years ago

What about Africa? Does it stay the same, because of the position of it being both north & South? Thanks for the interesting take on the world...

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Pieter Markey 8 years ago

You would almost believe the world is round!

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tazzz001 8 years ago

i don´t get it

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Inbucks Wetrust 8 years ago

:)) Будете много выебываться все будет Россией. Не с чем сравнивать будет.

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Rowan Draper 8 years ago

This doesn't make sense

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Fox Cheburashka 8 years ago

Amazing work! :)

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saulw7 8 years ago

Qué tan cierto y comprobable es esto?

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弋立刘 8 years ago

Don't you guys use terrestrial globe?

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.gas. 8 years ago

I had high hopes for this. Unfortunately, it's inaccurate. :-(

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Michael Memmelaar 8 years ago

I can't be the only one who wants to see my penis mapped over Greenland.

-2points

Paul Adams 8 years ago

This is not science. It is fictional art.

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Amanda Panda 8 years ago

Whoever made this originally, was for sure, a bored panda.

30points

Intensive Panda 8 years ago

13points

Gergana Hristova 8 years ago

I'm amazed at how ignorant people in the comments are. :( sorry

9points

Serena Olij 8 years ago

Too bad the countries of the African continent are so underrepresented in the compared photo's. As far as I know they represent a very big part of the world in actual size!

5points

Milos Gajic 8 years ago

3points

Stan McMunich 8 years ago

Thank you Mr Mercator for giving generations a completely wrong view of the world.

2points

-- 8 years ago

And Singapore is still too small to be seen in any of them

2points

Jon Lisle-Summers 8 years ago

All maps have a distortion of some kind.

2points

Lou Wow 8 years ago

I don't fully understand this. Can the publisher please explain? I get how California is about the the same size as the UK but the rest are puzzling.

2points

Laurentiu Jinga 7 years ago

1point

Kelsey Clinton 7 years ago

1point

Timotius Valentino 7 years ago

Thank's for this article Very interesting

1point

saulw7 8 years ago

Me parece barabte raro, ya que la actuak tecnología satelital permitiría hacer una buena escala geográfica. Sin necesidad de usar ese método de adaptación.

1point

Kevin Kuokkanen 8 years ago

This is the only map you need to know about :) Flat_earth-1.png

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Rosangela Carchen Cezario 2 months ago

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Bill Bolton 4 years ago

Globes have accurate proportionality. But it is difficult to fold one and store it. Although there are some one may deflate.

0points

Josep Barceló 5 years ago

Perhaps too many examples of the very same concept. The Mercator projection distorts sizes. That's all.

0points

Steve Milenkovic 6 years ago

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Elisha Barren 6 years ago

You forgot Africa and have massively bigger it is than some countries and continents.

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Kevin Crawford 7 years ago

Bottom line: Buy a globe if you want to see how countries really compare, size wise, to one another. Because a flat map distorts the sizes of continents the further they are from the equator.

0points

Gjuro Kladaric 7 years ago

but, but, but... lands get "higher" on maps if out of equatorial areas... but things on this maps do get "wider", which simply is not true...

0points

Maciek Dzierzawski 7 years ago

Fascinating!

0points

Krystine Patterson 7 years ago

This still won't teach Americans where countries are.

0points

Antonio González Trück 7 years ago

As far as I'm concerned all countries have the same world map.

0points

Robin Lupinacci 7 years ago

Just allow that the lower the latitude more accurate the representation. On Mercator an object at 40 degrees is less accurately represented than one at 15 degrees latitude.

0points

Michael Gary 7 years ago

As much as I love maps, why not just make a list of countries showing total square kilometers.....

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Jason Rider 7 years ago

if you want to see countries as they are sized exactly relative to each other, buy a globe

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udi 7 years ago

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Vikky Sahil 7 years ago

Easy way to learn worldmap.....Great!!

0points

Da Vid 7 years ago

Do not ignore the fact that I actually came on here to read comments !! Lol 👌🏻

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Sunshine Asomugha 7 years ago

They didn't want to touch the misrepresentation of Africa's size. 🤔

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Marco Fogaça 7 years ago

👏👏👏

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Erik Baard 7 years ago

Have you folks ever seen a globe?

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Dan Bellerive 7 years ago

#29 "Almost the same size"? We're 2.5x their square mileage..

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ステファンメートル 7 years ago

bzdury

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JC Champalaune 7 years ago

This pictures are still misleading (the other way around compared to "usual" maps). For example, China (10 billion km2) is far from being as big as Russia (17). Here it looks about 80% of its size

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Nicholas JEROME 7 years ago

who made this c**p ?

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Bill Richardson 7 years ago

They forgot to include Alaska with the US, and it is huge!

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Dark Matter 7 years ago

It's interesting you didn't compare the continent of Africa, (just the Congo), hum?

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Raymundo WW 7 years ago

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Andrew Kennerley 7 years ago

If my granny had balls she'd be my grandad...

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Andrew Kennerley 7 years ago

If my granny had balls she'd be my grandad ...

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Francis Castiglione 7 years ago

so your saying Sth Africa is actually the same width as the Nth of Africa, and Sth America is wide as the United States? what a load of B.S

0points

Edna Guerrero 7 years ago

why don't you move countries of South America to the northem of earth? still doesn't work for you?

0points

Marco Andreas 8 years ago

This is why I prefer to use maps with the "Gall–Peters projection" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall–Peters_projection

0points

Davo Yoshibima 8 years ago

i would like to see Sudan, Zaire ,Nigeria or even south Africa put on this scale

0points

LeFlyingSaucer 8 years ago

F**k Mercartor!

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Ferod. Rosheev 8 years ago

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Carmen Jason 8 years ago

Nice, Africa is completely left out in these comparisons! :(

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Santhosh Zeus 8 years ago

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Hanam Hamid 8 years ago

I am not so sure with your facts. How did this becomes a fact though?#curious

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Alexandra Kovacova 8 years ago

This is amazing and so weird to see at the same time.

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ҸӲӅӐӪӋӒӍЪ ҶЎԈӚҨӴӔӍӦԜЪ 8 years ago

РОССИЯ САМАЯ ЛУЧШАЯ СТРАНА НА СВЕТЕ! И ВСЕ ОСТАЛЬНЫЕ СТРАНЫ НАМ ЗАВИДУЮТ! 57971f996536f.jpg

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Veronica Daze 8 years ago

Yes but Canada's population is less than the state of California and a lot of their land is uninhabitable.

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Alex Green 8 years ago

Maps are too confusing, I barely even understand any of this lol

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Melissa Herrera 8 years ago

I dont grt this

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Vincent Jay 8 years ago

Very interesting.

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Ajiesh Thuvanoor Kayi 8 years ago

thetruesize.com will automatically project maps

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Ajiesh Thuvanoor Kayi 8 years ago

truesize.com will automatically project maps

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Matthias Pedro Coscoñas 8 years ago

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Janos David 8 years ago

why there is no Taiwan region in Chinese territory?

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milou 8 years ago

http://www.petersmap.com

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Pemberton 8 years ago

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Ridwan Khan 8 years ago

well to get the most accurate figure... i divide land area (sq mile) of the apparent largest by the smallest... atleast u will see by how many times the largest is bigger than the smallest

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Sara Jane 8 years ago

Why do they still look regular size on a globe? The earth is round, a globe is round so why are the countries on a globe the way we are used to seeing them printed?

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Ana Weyland 8 years ago

And what is the purpose of this?

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Andrea Mackey 8 years ago

I wonder why they did not do Africa. I think people would of been blown out of their mind I'd they saw how big Africa is.

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Callie Giffin 8 years ago

This is cool but I don't full understand it... Could someone explain

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Hans 8 years ago

Quite a nice idea! Some geographical knowledge always helps...and this is fascinating at the same time.

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Grace Barclay 8 years ago

What about Africa? Does it stay the same, because of the position of it being both north & South? Thanks for the interesting take on the world...

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Pieter Markey 8 years ago

You would almost believe the world is round!

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tazzz001 8 years ago

i don´t get it

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Inbucks Wetrust 8 years ago

:)) Будете много выебываться все будет Россией. Не с чем сравнивать будет.

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Rowan Draper 8 years ago

This doesn't make sense

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Fox Cheburashka 8 years ago

Amazing work! :)

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saulw7 8 years ago

Qué tan cierto y comprobable es esto?

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弋立刘 8 years ago

Don't you guys use terrestrial globe?

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.gas. 8 years ago

I had high hopes for this. Unfortunately, it's inaccurate. :-(

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Michael Memmelaar 8 years ago

I can't be the only one who wants to see my penis mapped over Greenland.

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Paul Adams 8 years ago

This is not science. It is fictional art.

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