Haha, Russia 🤏

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• RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Africa: Yes, I really am that big, actually.

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  • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  School fucked me up, it was jarring to learn the US and Australia are comparable in size. The maps always depicted it as a little island.

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  • vateso5074@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And, accordingly, how large Brazil actually is, which is not quite as distorted for its location touching the equator.

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• random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is it cold out here or why did nordics shrivel like that.

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• Xanthobilly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This explains my theory on why Trump wants Greenland. He doesn’t realize how small it actually is.

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  • BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be fair, it’s still at least 25% the size of the continental US, which isn’t insignificant. But that’s far from being about the same size as Africa as the projection depicts, not to mention only ~20% of it is even remotely hospitable.

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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As a Canadian, I don’t like this.

  Idk why being big feels important, but this map feels like a threat lol

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  • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We we’re hit especially hard because they shrunk each island individually. Just the Canadian mainland looks the same size as the states.

    On the other hand, seeing Russia shrunk like that makes me think we could be bigger!

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• istdaslol@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Man, Mercator really screwed Canada over . They ended up really small

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  • xkbx@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Its just cold up here eh

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  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Canada’s land area didn’t change. It’s still second only to Russia, I believe. It simply doesn’t show as 4x the size of some other countries in this map version.

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• ashenone@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What map type has the most accurate continent sizes?

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not without other tradeoffs.

    There is no map projection that gets everything correct, because a 3d surface cannot be accurately projected onto a 2d surface without loss.

    You can get projections that accurately show size, but not shape.
    Or accurately show size and shape of landmass, but oceans get warped.
    Etc. if you want accuracy you need a globe.

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-area_projection

    Or try looking at an actual globe. :)

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    • ashenone@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Aptly named, thank you

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  • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Interactive version

    thetruesize.com

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• Stefan_S_from_H@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Image

  😐

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• bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How does the true size work on a 2D plane? Is it because we’re ignoring connecting landmasses that this gives a better approximation than a full globe 2D map?

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Map projections always have inaccuracies, they make deliberate tradeoffs.

    The common Mercator projection allows the long and lat lines to be straight, but it means shapes near the poles get stretched.

    Some projections do a better job of accurately portraying shapes at the sacrifice of size.
    Some can do shape an size of landmass, but the oceans are distorted.
    Etc, all projections have compromises.

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  • Starski@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, as far as I’m aware at least, to keep them the same size with the same connections the locations of the geography would be warped compared to where they should be on a globe, that’s the benefit of a mercator map even though it warps the sizes.

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• halvar@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  hungary is small enough as it is please leave us alone D:

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