Africa is SO much bigger in reality than a map.. You can fit about 14 Greenlands in Africa, so the maps are bullshit, but people just keep passing it along... When I was in school, "Columbus discovered America" - but you can't say that now.
shareIce walls!
shareGlobular projection is the only feasible way to do a world map.
I do think Trump had a great idea about buying Greenland though.
Yeah, people live in Greenland. That doesn't sit right with me.
shareBut it's still a part of Denmark.
shareYeah, it is. I think it should be up to the people of Greenland though. I mean if they want independence from Denmark, great....but to be purchased by the US?? If they don't want that, I don't think it should be a monetary transaction.
shareWell they haven't opted for independence either. I'm just musing here. But I wouldn't mind if Greenland was an American Commonwealth like Puerto Rico.
shareAgain, I think it should be up the people of Greenland. I was under the impression that they are working towards independence, but I'm not 100% sure about that.
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This may help: -
https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/data-visualisation-animated-map-mercater-projection-true-size-countries
I'll look at that, thanks..
Still weird that something that far off is still shown as "official", and now people think the first result from Google is "official"
these guys are hilarious at explaining this stuff
"Why every world map is wrong"
https://youtu.be/jtBV3GgQLg8
1) the earth is a sphere,
2) lat./long. lines,
3) point of view.
Though I do remember, 'The West Wing' bringing this up in an episode, but without giving any commentary about the above list.
Why would you say that Columbus discovered a place where people had already been living there for 10 thousand years?
shareIt's called the Mercator Projection. Objects closer to the poles appear larger than objects near the equator in this projection.
shareAfrica is near the south pole.. Again, it's not "just a little larger" but 14x.. Africa is a lot bigger than Russia, etc... I think it's anti-Africa thing to make them appear insignificant.
shareYeah. The Mercator Projection. It's a navigator's map, basically, designed for shipping at a time when keeping the latitude and longitude correct was far more important than representing the actual size of the countries and the continents relative to each other.