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Greenland looks the same size as Africa on almost every map you have ever seen, and Africa is fourteen times larger

Picture a world map. Almost everyone picturing one is imagining the same thing: a ...
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Greenland Looks So Huge on Maps, Here’s the Distortion That’s Been Trickling Us All Along!

Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style. A recent study reveals how this distortion influences our perception ...