Die Mercator-Projektion im Vergleich zur tatsächlichen Größe der Länder.
Von zero575
Die Mercator-Projektion im Vergleich zur tatsächlichen Größe der Länder.
Von zero575
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r/WeKnowAboutMercator
How is Africa the same size?
Should include Antarctica. That is where the effect is most prominent.
Why west Asia South Asia Africa etc same Size?
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/)
dumb question, which shade is actual size?
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.
Why aren’t southern countries as exaggerated as Northern countries due to the Mercator projection?
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‘?
its like this on the globe then?
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.
Russia’s been getting free marketing all this time
India is perfectly balanced.
Even this model isn’t totally curate. Brazil is almost the same size as Russia and Russia is twice the size of Brazil
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
What happened to Laos and Cambodia?
Those are not the real sizes of countries
Just use a globe and grow up
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