On most maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than ...
Maps sit quietly in classrooms, on news websites and inside phone screens. They look settled and precise, but the world they show is always slightly bent out of shape. Because the Earth is round, any ...
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Greenland Looks So Huge on Maps, Here’s the Distortion That’s Been Trickling Us All Along!
Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map ...
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