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Originally Posted by #-3
A little fairer to all? |
No, that's the worst. It distorts the nations in the northern hemisphere to look much larger than they actually are.
Greenland is 2.17 million square km in area. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) is 2.34 million square km. You wouldn't guess that from that map, would you?
In fact, Greenland is roughly the same size as Saudi Arabia.
That map is especially bad because it chops off Antarctica which makes the Southern Hemisphere seem even more insignificant.