The actual size of countries

Actual sizes of countries due to the “Mercator-Effect” for all the people that get confused about why Greenland is not a continent. If you are new to this, google: “Mercator-Effect” or “Mercator-Projection” Mercator is a fantastic projection. People give it loads of hate, but it's actually brilliant. We just use it for the wrong things. Mercator was designed for shipping lanes. It correctly allows you to draw a straight line from one port to another, follow that line, and end up in the right place. In the age of sail, this was a fantastic invention. Unfortunately we use it for general mapping purposes nowadays... Which it's terrible for... But it was never designed for this purpose. Given that very few of us are navigating a ship nowadays... Winkel-Tripel or even Authagraph seem like a better option (though the latter is culturally alien to most of us).

The Mercator projection distorts the real size of countries 👇

American students

The True Size of Africa

It’s not a conspiracy, it’s what happens when you put a globe on a flat piece of paper

Trying to view a 3D object in 2D, they won’t be the same… and that doesn’t mean someone is trying to trick you for some nefarious reasons 😒

This is one of the best MCU speech to be ever written

Cat amazing reflex

How governments work! 😂

This pool design is amazing! 👏