Blaue Umrisse zeigen Länder, wie wir sie normalerweise auf Mercator-Karten sehen. Rote Überlagerungen zeigen ihre wahre relative Größe, wenn die Bereichsverzerrung entfernt wird.
Afrika und Südamerika wachsen dramatisch, während Grönland, Europa und Nordamerika auf ihre tatsächlichen Ausmaße schrumpfen. Eine einfache, aber wirkungsvolle Erinnerung daran, wie Kartenprojektionen unsere Wahrnehmung der Welt prägen.
Von GlitteringHotel8383
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Russia’s excuse is that it’s really cold there
Idk somehow this doesn’t really add up, Russia is 2x as big as Brazil but on here Russia only looks slightly bigger.
Wow. Russia, in comparison to how it usually appears in maps, is actually pretty tiny. It’s only slightly larger than China.
The Maghreb is absolutely gigantic and almost larger than all of Europe.
Here you can drag a country to others to compare [https://thetruesize.com/](https://thetruesize.com/)
Look how they massacred my Russia!
I dislike about this representation, that Antarctica is missing. The Mercator projection distorts symmetrically with the equator being the symmetry axis. This map makes it look like the distortion is asymmetric.
>Africa and South America expand dramatically
No they don’t? They basically keep their size, because they are so close to the equator. And both Argentina and Chile shrink quite a lot.
Lol look at Nordic country
r/WeKnowAboutMercator
I see that a good way of showing how distorted the Mercator projection is, is showing that Greenland is actually 1/3 smaller than India, and the same size as Saudi Arabia.
And this is why I always cringe when people say Germany is large enough to take on refugees.
No.
We’re a tiny country on a tiny peninsula of asia.
More people are born into poverty every year in Africa alone than live in this country.
Stop trying to save everyone by inviting them here and let’s do our best to improve everyone’s home county!
Just get a globe.
Holy crap. New Zealands on a map!
NEW ZEALANDS ON A MAP!!!!
Ruzzia looks so pathetic on this map lmao
Antarctica shrunk so bad, you can’t see it.
I don’t see Africa or South America expanding „dramatically“ here. It’s rather northernmost countries that shrink very much.
I always downvote „true size“ maps.
The world doesn’t change size.
What are Brazil and Uruguay doing to Argentina???
The world doesn’t “actually change size”. And this map is a repost of a repost of a repost.
Oh shit I’ve definitely never seen this before!
Pretty sure that Canada’s southern border and the US’s northern border should be the same length
Yes we know the mercator projection. You may hate it, but it will always stay relevant, because it’s basically the only 2d map model we have that properly preserves distances and can be therefore actually used for navigation.
Btw one fun fact for mercator is, that you have to cut off a part of antarctica, because antarctica is infinite in size with mercator.
This is stupid . I guess Russia don’t share border with Eastern Europe? If they did China would be much closer to Europe
this is bullshit i went from canada to america and there was a land border and a waterfall also alaska is really close to rusha Palin could see it from her house
Ahhh, that’s why I couldn’t swim to tassie
Fuckin karma bot
I feel like this is off, Russia still looks bigger than that on a globe
The exaggeration of Russia is part of geopolitics in a way.
Woah, new bluey just dropped r/weknowaboutmercator
Genuinely insane how impactful the British Isles have been on the world compared to how tiny they are
You’d never have thought those tiny islands would be the central hub of the largest empire in human history
Brazil is freaking enormous.