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Greenland is not the size of Africa — Africa is over 14 times bigger — but you wouldn't know it from most classroom maps, thanks to the Mercator projection distorting sizes to preserve shape. This interactive map lets you drag countries around the globe to compare their actual size: an ins
Greenland is not the size of Africa — Africa is over 14 times bigger — but you wouldn't know it from most classroom maps, thanks to the Mercator projection distorting sizes to preserve shape. This interactive map lets you drag countries around the globe to compare their actual size: an instant geography lesson and a hands-on challenge to an inherited worldview (inspired, fittingly, by that West Wing 'Cartographers for Social Equality' scene).
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