True Size of Countries

Which country is really bigger?
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True Size
Flat maps stretch countries near the poles. Greenland looks as big as Africa — it's 14× smaller!
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About True Size of Countries

Every flat world map has to stretch something, and the familiar Mercator map stretches the far north and south the most. That's why Greenland looks as large as Africa when it would actually fit inside it fourteen times. True Size turns that surprise into a game. In the "Which is bigger?" quiz you compare two highlighted countries and pick the one with the larger real area; the map then lifts one country, glides it beside the other, and redraws it at its honest size so you can see the answer, not just read it. In Explore mode you can grab any country and drag it toward the equator or the poles, watching it shrink and grow as the map's stretching changes. It's a free, no-sign-up way for students aged 8 and up to understand map projections and remember the true sizes of countries.

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