Silver Tongue
kittymeow321:
“the-heroes-and-the-bees:
“coffee-with-kat:
“ whowhatwhenwhereandwhynot:
“ peteseeger:
“ mapsontheweb:
“Trading places; Mexico and Greenland swap place in the Mercator Projection.
”
This is fucked up
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Map to illustrate the true size of...

kittymeow321:

the-heroes-and-the-bees:

coffee-with-kat:

whowhatwhenwhereandwhynot:

peteseeger:

mapsontheweb:

Trading places; Mexico and Greenland swap place in the Mercator Projection.

This is fucked up

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Map to illustrate the true size of countries

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These maps have always fucked me up? Why is mainland Canada roughly the size of Africa? Why is Ellesmere Island bigger than fuckign India??

Because the Earth is spherical, so it gets stretched out to fill out the map

No one really wants to look at this

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