A 2D World Map is not to scale (until you really start to zoom in…)
Content Source/Owner:
RealLifeLore
6 min
Summary:
All of us have seen a world map at some point in our lives before, but it is very difficult to imagine how certain countries and parts of the world compare to each other in size that are far apart.
In this video, I explore why the world looks very different than how it is portrayed in the Mercator Projection map. I then go on to explore how certain countries are unexpectedly larger or smaller than what they appear to be, and how some places looks wildly different than our perceptions.
PS; Don’t totally hate on the Mercator Projection, it’s actually a really useful map for navigation and on keeping the correct shape of countries while sacrificing the size that we can all laugh about!
Link to TheTrueSize.com https://thetruesize.com/
Music is by Ross Bugden. He makes excellent music, please check out his channel!
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