Someone Asks Why Maps Lie About Sizes, Internet Delivers A Hilarious Reality Check (35 Pics)

Mercator projection is now known as the Chad Projection

This is a simple and clear (Orange peel reference) explanation of an age old issue. I worked with a Science convention and they always gave a gift to the host city's science education effort. One year that got a GIANT inflatable globe (sort of like a bounce house). The teachers could setup the globe in a school auditorium and the whole class could go inside and see the actual sizes of continents, etc. IT WAS BRILLIANT! Incredibly effective. BTW, the continent of AFRICA is much much larger than any flat map shows.

This must be the best explanation for the globe -> mercator(?) projection! 🌍🌎🌏

100% this!

Logical.

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I'm guessing the fun little website is thetruesize.com?

Never miss an opportunity to bash Americans. We aren't all uneducated morons, only the loudest of us, just like every other country on Earth. Dumb people think high volume makes them smarter but people who generalize based on a person's country now that is really dumb.

Nice try, but prolix explanations end in an empty room.

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That's what someone's husband said..? 🤷‍♂️

A good start to College work - totally challenge misconceptions.

Nothing about this is close to correct 😫

Yep 👍🏻. Upvote for the West Wing, and one of the best episodes 😊. Is the West Wing nearly a ballroom now?

That's the best explanation I've seen in many, many years.

How did you manage that?

Oh right, blame it on the curves 😣

Uhhhh... Alaska?

Geez what happened to Greenland and Canada and the far n northern Global North?

Looks like Australia!

It's OK for the northern hemisphere, but pretty bad for the southern hemisphere.

This cant be right

Flat Earthers love this one, but only because they don't really understand what it is.

They are demonstrated. I'd query 'taught' as 10 year olds aren't usually up to spherical trigonometry

What're they smoking?

Doesn't work well at all.

Wut?

Maybe, but more likely the majority of the world's population resides in the northern hemisphere(majority not white).

The distortion itself isn't intentional, just unavoidable. Imperialism definitely is responsible for the choice to put the Northern hemisphere on top and Europe in the center though.

The location of the equator is Eurocentric? OK.... Tell us where you would put it!

And how much gold and minerals and labor there is to exploit. China has a big interest.

If I'm not mistaken, South America is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. Try again.

Wow, that is overreach. You must have outrageously long arms.

Mercator is equally 'wrong' in the Northern and Southern hemispheres; it's most accurate near the equator and hopeless near the poles. It's not race, it's latitude.