Just look at the map, what more proof do you need?
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Kalothar@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Uh, antartica is about as wide as the U.S. and about as tall as it is wide.
So, I just feel like I’m being bamboozled here
realitista@lemm.ee 6 months ago
cobra89@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Yeah it’s definitely not a real projection. If Antarctica looked like that (taken top down) then the rest of the continents would not be oriented like that.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Mercator maps are lies.
www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTM2MzMzMDI.MTA2…
Kalothar@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Yeah, they certainly are:
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disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s almost twice the height in that picture. It’s also larger in square miles.
The total area of the U.S. and its territories is over 3.8 million square miles.
Antarctica’s area of 5.4 million square miles makes it 1.5x the size of the US.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Typical American, declaring that the US is the default country to compare every other country to!
On a more serious note, putting things side by side is the same as putting them over each other. Difference in height are not the same though, as closer to the equator size shrinks. The best way to compare is take two things and put them side by side on the equator - that’s where there’s least distortion.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Join the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality today!
jonasw@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Kalothar is right
www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY4NDk1MDM.NTE5…)MQ