The Maps you were taught were all wrong

Re-learn your Geography

Maps twist our perception of the world. More specifically, the Mercator projection, which is what is commonly used, distorts certain countries completely.

Countries closer to the equator (i.e. poorer) seem smaller than they really are

So we develop a weak intuition for comparing country sizes.

The biggest loser is Africa, which is humongous in reality.

Brazil is so big, the northernmost point of the country is closer to ALL North American countries than to the southernmost point in Brazil!

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Hasn’t Greenland always looked so large and dominating on the map? This is Mexico swapping places with Greenland.

Fun fact - Chile is as long as Europe!

Why does this happen? Because the Earth is spherical- flattening a ball distorts its shape completely!

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