c/mildlyinteresting · by cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world · 1yThe true size of… https://thetruesize.com/213 points · 12 comments · view on lemmy.world
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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 39 pts · 1y
Oh yeah, it's the Mercator projection's silliness made visible. Maybe that's why Trump wants Greenland in the first place...
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 1y
It's still massive without distortion.
abbadon420@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y
Trump should move the USA up north, so it truly becomes great. Maybe that's why he wants to buy Greenland.
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
It's hilarious when you slide a country toward one of the poles and it suddenly becomes larger than the entire planet.
kewko@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
They should clip really, but it obviously doesn't become bigger, stuff that's off the map just doesn't count...
unknown1234_5@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 1y
fire site
macaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
When people say the US can’t have high speed rail.
M137@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Even when knowing about this effect on maps I didn't think Madagascar was larger than Sweden, that's cool!
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Not pictured: your mom.
CluckN@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 1y
Texas is way bigger
Sidhean@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
It's dwarfed by its ego, though.