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Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.
Explore the real scale of countries with our interactive map! Discover the true size of nations and see accurate maps that challenge misconceptions about country sizes.
Because this map uses the Mercator projection—a standard for many Web maps—you'll also notice how the sizes of countries change as you drag them towards the Equator or the poles. This is an embedded page.
An interesting, easy to use tool that allows you to compare the sizes of two different countries on the same map. See a true size comparison.
Today’s infographic comes from the design studio Art.Lebedev and shows the true size of the world’s land masses in order from largest to smallest using data from NASA and Google. Check out the actual shape and size of each land mass without any distortions.
Here are the world’s ten largest countries, all dragged to neutral territory – on the equator – for better size comparison. Suddenly, those size differences don’t seem so great any more.
While it’s well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly by how much. Countries close to the equator barely change, whereas countries further north shrink dramatically.
Because the Earth is a sphere, there is no way to show it perfectly on a flat map. So all maps are distorted. With this simple app you will be able to compare countries and know how big they really are. A great tool for teachers or kids and adults interested in geography.
The website lets you juxtapose two countries together to compare their relative size. Here’s what the real size of countries looks like. This post may include affiliate links.
The world maps we know all misrepresent the world itself: we’ve all heard it many times before, but how well do we understand the nature of that misrepresentation?