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There's a lovely blog post about the real world areas of countries compared to the Mercator projection here:

geospatialworld.net/blogs/maps-t...
4x s/s from link showing real areas of countries in comparison to Mercator map projection The most glaring example of this distortion is Greenland, appears to be roughly the same size as Africa. In reality, as mentioned above Greenland is just 2,166,086 sq km and whereas Africa is 30,043,862 sq km, nearly 14-and-a-half times larger. Similarly, let's take the example of the United States (contiguous 48). Even though having a size of 9,904,670 sq km, if we place the US next to Australia, with a size of 7,692,024 sq km and near the equator, the country looks unbelievably small, almost the same as Australia. India has a size of 3,166,414 sq km, which looks tiny compared to Greenland. Now, if we take it to the North Pole, it looks way bigger than Greenland (2,166,086 sq km), which is, in reality, true according to their size. But since India is located near the equator its size look much smaller than Greenland. In fact, the continent of Europe, which actually dominates much of northern hemisphere, when compared to Brazil (8,515,767 sq km), looks almost equal. When you take Brazil next to Europe you can see the change in size.
March 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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At some point, OFCOM are going to realise that the number of complaints exceeds the number of the channels viewers.
February 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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He makes a great point, where was the coverage when 5 times as many people marched to protect nature in June?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Flat-cap Clarkson only wants his nose in the trough | Stewart Lee
The broadcaster thinks if he fires up his farming fanbase they can shield him from his obligation to contribute his fair share to society
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 12:04 PM