Monday, 11 May 2015

Here’s why most world maps are really wrong

Here’s why most world maps are really wrong
Most likely, Greenland isn’t nearly as big as you think. This graphic by Seth Kadish of Vizual Statistix shows how the area of Africa (in white) compares to the area of Greenland (in green) in 11 different map projections. Because the Earth is a sphere, picturing the globe on a two-dimensional map usually involves some […]

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