Mercator Greenland Africa Comparison
The Mercator projection distorts the true size of Greenland, Africa for scale.
A map shows the outline of Africa placed over Greenland, revealing that Africa is much larger than Greenland despite their distorted appearance on common Mercator maps. The joke highlights how map projections mislead people about the relative size of countries and continents.
- @rzeczyzabawne / 19713 2025-01-26
- Type
- image
- Size
- 800×648 · 63.2 KiB
- Mood
- informative, ironic
- Language
- en
- Added