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True continent sizes (slrpnk.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Contenents are generally bigger than countries yes.

Here's an actual continent size comparison Contenent sizes

[–] Pirasp 59 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Except, that your picture shows the continents in the usual Mercator projection distorted way. This type of projection makes countries nearer to the poles look way larger than they actually are.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Antarctica is definitely not Mercator there!

And finding a good projection for the entirety of Asia would be difficult.

Now, using Mercator Russia in the OP image with Africa.... But I've already complained about that in two other crossposts ;-)

[–] Pirasp 11 points 7 months ago

I'll give you the point on Antarctica, but using multiple different projections is somehow even worse imho

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