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Eh. They could have used a different projection. It's kinda silly to grab, say, Algeria, move it around, and see it grow and shrink.
that's literally the point of the website, to show how countries change as you move them about the mercator projection (which is the standard projection we interact with)
Ok, fair point.
But who is "we"?
Pretty much everybody on this planet
Nope. Not true.
Okay thanks for the input