True Map Of The World

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Mercator Misconceptions Clever Map Shows The True Size Of Countries

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True Map Of The World. Since its creation however cartographers have produced other ways to visualize the globe. For many people the Earth as they know it is heavily informed by the Mercator projection a tool used for nautical navigation that eventually became the worlds most widely recognized map. Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size.

This high quality poster image is approximately 36-Inch by 24-Inch and is suitable for framing. And none of these projections can be titled the real world map just because they all depict the same Earth through a different lens. The result is a widespread misconception that Greenland is as big as Africa Siberia and Canada are disproportionally massive and that Antarctica apparently.

Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. The world map you are probably familiar with is called the Mercator projection below which was developed all the way back in 1569 and greatly distorts the relative areas of land masses. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the earth.

True Scale Map Of The World Shows How Big Countries Really Are