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30 Countries Compared To The United States With A Real Scale Perspective
Maps are deceiving. You see, the surface of a sphere cannot be represented as a plane without some form of distortion.
Since the 1500s, scientists have been developing algorithms that would help transform the globe into something flat, and to do this, they use a method called map projection.
There is no right or wrong way to do it, and everything depends on the map's purpose. But while every type of map preserves one thing, it messes up the other.
Area, shape, direction, bearing, distance, and scale of the landmasses are the main properties map makers are constantly juggling. Most people usually look at the Mercator projection.
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#1
Australia
Population: 23,470,145, and all trying to buy a house in Melbourne it seems
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#2
New Zealand
Population: 4,545,627 people and about 30,000,000 sheep
Monika Soffronow 7 years ago
New Zealand is also quite a bit larger than what I had in my head. Lovely country, with real leadership.
#5
India
Population: 1,296,834,042
Expected to pass China in population within a few years. Stripped bit near Winnipeg is occupied by China.
#6
Belgium
Population: 11,570,762
#8
Indonesia
Population: 262,787,403
More than half the population is on that one island running from northern New Mexico to central Oklahoma. The big island in the upper Great Plains and that thing in the Atlantic are mostly jungle.
#9
Madagascar
Population: 25,683,610
Ports: closed.
Monika Soffronow 7 years ago
Now, this is something I had no idea of. Madagascar is much larger than I thought it would be.
#11
Croatia
Population: 4,270,480
One of the coolest-shaped countries, like a Needler from Halo.
finelaffen 7 years ago
Also, to drive from Split to Dubrovnik, you need to exit Croatia into Bosnia Herzegovina and back into Croatia.
#14
Poland
Population: 38,420,687
#15
Japan
Population: 126,168,156 and 1 Godzilla
Bullet train will take you from Tokyo, Arkansas to Osaka, Texas in about 2.5hrs
#16
United Kingdom
Population: 65,105,246
#17
Italy
Population: 62,246,674
Giving South Carolina the boot.
Ben Steinberg 7 years ago
If they'd flip the image, Italy could be giving Washington DC the boot...
#18
Argentina
Population: 44,694,198
#26
Turkey
Population: 81,257,239
*Constantinople
better version of alex 7 years ago
It's istanbul, not constantinople now, it's istanbul (umbrella academy anyone)
#28
Ukraine
Population: 43,952,299
IIRC, the Russian-occupied part in the east is roughly New Jersey, Delaware, and a bit of Pennsylvania
finelaffen 7 years ago
Largest country in Europe, in fact (excluding countries that span both Europe and Asia).
#29
Georgia
Population of the country of Georgia: 4,926,087
Population of the US State of Georgia: 10,519,475
#30
Philippines
Population: 105,893,381
Luis Milian 7 years ago
Fun fact: Philippines is the world's largest island within a lake (Main Crater Lake) that is situated on an island (aka Taal Island) located in a lake, within an island (Luzon). I been there and is beautiful!
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Sue Prewitt 7 years ago
I wish you would have had the US map stay the same size for all the comparisons.
Daria B 7 years ago
Eheheh! Some countries would have been invisible in that case. ♥
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Sue Prewitt 7 years ago
I wish you would have had the US map stay the same size for all the comparisons.
Daria B 7 years ago
Eheheh! Some countries would have been invisible in that case. ♥
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