. . . . After having looked at the same flat maps as you’ve probably looked at for many, many years, it came as a surprise to me that land masses around the equator are actually much bigger than is commonly believed, the image below. . . proving that point quite clearly.
Of course, the corollary is Greenland, an island nation that, though quite large, is not nearly as big as most people believe. Then again, most people probably don’t even know where or what Greenland is, let alone wonder whether their perception of its size has been distorted by looking at flat maps of a sphere for so many years:
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