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Mercator Misconceptions: Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries
The vast majority of us aren’t using paper maps to chart our course across the ocean anymore, so critics of the Mercator projection argue that the continued use of this style of map gives users a warped sense of the true size of countries – particularly in the case of the African continent.
Mercator’s map inadvertently also pumps up the sizes of Europe and North America. Visually speaking, Canada and Russia appear to take up approximately 25% of the Earth’s surface, when in reality they occupy a mere 5%.
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialWarfare&fbclid=IwAR3uOeytoM9t8IwSKpg4yuTedm1sxZ5RQ_--2_nPjcym8LdXKwwjoTYyzFs
The vast majority of us aren’t using paper maps to chart our course across the ocean anymore, so critics of the Mercator projection argue that the continued use of this style of map gives users a warped sense of the true size of countries – particularly in the case of the African continent.
Mercator’s map inadvertently also pumps up the sizes of Europe and North America. Visually speaking, Canada and Russia appear to take up approximately 25% of the Earth’s surface, when in reality they occupy a mere 5%.
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialWarfare&fbclid=IwAR3uOeytoM9t8IwSKpg4yuTedm1sxZ5RQ_--2_nPjcym8LdXKwwjoTYyzFs