Observed arrival · 2026-10-11
Globegami’s draggable map of true country sizes
An interactive map for comparing country sizes, with a deep-time mode that traces continental change across 400 million years.
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- Its help text says Mercator renders areas at 60° north four times larger than their true area.
Field notes
The help text quantifies the projection effect: at 60° north, Mercator renders an area four times its real size, and Africa is described as 14 times larger than Greenland. Source notes also name Natural Earth, Wikidata and the UN Statistics Division, NOAA ETOPO1, NASA GIBS, and the EarthByte reconstructions by Matthews et al. (2016) and Cao et al. (2017). Historical borders are attributed to Cliopatria and Seshat.
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