While I 100 percent know this to be true, it still always is jarring to see the truth every time haha
Pro_Racing on
Can we just ban these low effort Mercator true size maps already, there are hundreds of them, and a map enthusiast sub shouldn’t be shocked about the Mercator projection.
Top-Seaweed1862 on
Empire that never really dissolved
SubstantialLoss9469 on
What are you doing?! Put that thing back where it was!
Juste-un-autre-alt on
Just a reminder that Africa is HUGE.
m1yash1ro on
“Wow thats big”
“Wow thats big”
3rrr6 on
I get that it looks smaller on the equator, but it’s still a massive country.
ScholaePalatinae3 on
Why is it so hard to understand what a map projection is? Has anyone ever looked at a globe before? Used Google Earth?
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Is Africa taller than Russia is wide?
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What are you doing on mapporn when you learned today, how the Mercator projection works?
So owned. Russia is not the worlds biggest country it is small and unimpressive!
This and greenland are allways so funny to me. The map warp is extrem
Anything that deflates Putin’s ego is good.
Still large.
This map needs to be supplemented with a map showing human settlement patterns and a map of areas of permafrost that are unsuitable for habitation.
People are still surprised about Mercator distortions? School anyone?
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Is Russia the purple country, the gray country or the blue one? I’m confused.
A website was made so we wouldn’t have to see these posts and it’s used to make these posts
Yes. And this sight is your friend for this:
[https://thetruesize.com/](https://thetruesize.com/)
So which one is the true size?
Just visit earth.google.com
Don’t post any more of these, they’re so stupid.
While I 100 percent know this to be true, it still always is jarring to see the truth every time haha
Can we just ban these low effort Mercator true size maps already, there are hundreds of them, and a map enthusiast sub shouldn’t be shocked about the Mercator projection.
Empire that never really dissolved
What are you doing?! Put that thing back where it was!
Just a reminder that Africa is HUGE.
“Wow thats big”
“Wow thats big”
I get that it looks smaller on the equator, but it’s still a massive country.
Why is it so hard to understand what a map projection is? Has anyone ever looked at a globe before? Used Google Earth?