This Is The True Size Of Africa. How large is Africa compared to the United States, or Western Europe? Most inhabitants of the latter places might guess it is a little larger, but few would have ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on maps, making them appear different to reality.

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In this way, 'The True Size Of...' allows you to accurately grasp the size of each country that was 'misunderstood' by the Mercator projection. Jan 11, 2017 06:00:00 'The ...

The true size of Africa is larger than you may realize. Mercator Projections, the type of map Google and many other services use, were made for navigating the ocean, not visualizing the size of ...

One of the best known and commonly used world maps, the Mercator Projection, depicts Greenland and Africa as being roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is 14 times larger.. This clever ...

The point, though, is that this makes it hard to visualize how big everything is. Here to fix that: The True Size Map.It's an online tool that lets you select countries from a Mercator Projection ...