Actual Real World Map

Neil kaye/@neilrkaye one of the best known and commonly used world maps, the mercator projection, depicts greenland and africa as being roughly the same size. After seeing these 30 maps you’ll never look at the world the same. While it’s well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly by how much.

Track tropical storms, hurricanes, severe weather, wildfires and more. Map found via reddit, click for. To represent their relative sizes as accurately as possible.

The maps are all the work of climate data scientist @neilrkaye.

#7 indonesia would spread almost across the whole of russia #8 when you move canada to south america #9 california moved onto the uk shows they’re quite similar in size #10 china placed on top of russia #11 australia moved onto north america becomes really big #12 japan can stretch almost across canada Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Unlike the traditional mercator projection, which was put together in the 16th century, and exaggerates the size of northern areas like greenland and minimises places like. Neil kaye world map with true country size and shape