Real Map Of The World To Scale: Web drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Web greenland, which appears as a massive icy landmass in mercator projection, shrinks way down. Neil kaye by aristos georgiou.
Real Map Of The World To Scale
Web true scale map of the world shows how big countries really are oct 23, 2018 at 10:54 am edt a mosaic of world countries retaining their correct size and shape. Web one of the best known and commonly used world maps, the mercator projection, depicts greenland and africa as being roughly the same size. Is greenland really as big as all of africa?
Real Map Of The World To Scale: In reality, africa is 14 times larger. This visualization also highlights how distorted neighboring countries can look in mercator projection. To show how incorrect our understanding of countries by size is, a website called thetruesize.com lets you move land masses into different locations.