mapsontheweb: Size of Russia compared to Africa [ID: picture of standard world map where Russia has
mapsontheweb:Size of Russia compared to Africa[ID: picture of standard world map where Russia has been shrunk to the projection for Africa and overlaid with the continent to show that Africa is larger than the largest country in the world.]This is caused because of the Mercator Projection, which distorts the relative size of the landmasses. You can read about it here in a short news article. There’s another map called the Peters Projection which is the opposite, preserving relative size but distorting the shapes somewhat. Here’s a picture below:[ID: picture of a Peters Projection world map which shows Africa as incredibly large compared to North America and roughly the same size as Eurasia.] -- source link
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