Die Mercator-Projektion im Vergleich zur tatsächlichen Größe der Länder.

r/WeKnowAboutMercator

Should include Antarctica. That is where the effect is most prominent.

That’s not the Mercator, though.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#/media/File:Mercator_projection_Square.JPG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#/media/File:Mercator_projection_Square.JPG)

Edit: or [https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/)

I’d like to see that true size of projection. And then smush them all back together. I know it would distort things, Ocean sizes and stuff.

But you’re choosing one distortion or the other. I’d rather distort the oceans than the country sizes.

This makes no sense. Russia has larger surface area than US and the rest of Europe combined. How the heck can they claim this is ‚the actual size‘?

This looks wrong.

Russia (17 Mkm^(2)) is more than half of the size of all of Afrika (30 Mkm^(2)), but appears far smaller than that on this map.

India is perfectly balanced.

this messed with my brain the first time i learned it 😭 i remember confidently thinking i understood geography and then realized maps have been lying to me my whole life… had me questioning everything i learned in school

Those are not the real sizes of countries

Its fun to poke fun at mercator but dont say its anything more than a popular projection because it translates coastlines well and is used for mercantile trade it makes the northern countries bigger because they are closer to the geographic pole than the southern hemisphere countries to the south pole it skews at the poles