Why do maps never show the true size of countries?

Australia is iconic. It's kino. It's pure virgin untouched.
North America is an unnatural cluster fuck.
>That straight edged Canadian border

It's 2019. Real men like curves.

Because we're full.

Australia will soon be a superpower once they manage to make forests out of the whole country through artificial clouds.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection

Not sure.

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Oh I see, rectangle you said.

Europe is exactly as large as America (without Alaska).

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Dude, no. Just no. The US is a million sq miles bigger than Brucelandia.

Great!
Fuck off we're full

Shhhh Australia is our true greatest ally. Don't give away their strengths. Anyone who wants to invade is either gonna have to go through the desert and die, go around via coastal waters with all the poison things and die, or move along the beaches and run into Australians, and die. We want them to go through the desert.

Lot of water there

Look at Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia... that’s compensating the Med overlap.

Lot of Russia not covered by the outline as well

Gotta be 18 here kiddo

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I can hardly fathom how you can straight up ironically shitpost and at the same time manage to sound like the most educated person in the thread. This is some big brain stuff

>and run into Australians
with frikkin' sharks on their heads

Holy fuck Europe is tiny. When the aliens finally visit us, are we really going to tell them with a straight face the Earth has seven continents? There are only 6.

And yet, most of the civilization/culture/scientific thought originated from here. Or, to be more precise, from Mediterranian area.

Because they want to fit a 3d globe on a 2d screen and the mercator projection became a popular way to do that because it's very easy to do

For me, it's Atlantis.

I think it speaks to America being a second Europe more than anything else, or at least, had the potential to be. Obviously it is not as illustrious now.

no

>All that ocean/sea
Hans pls

OP really needs to learn something about maps. I suggest you start with “Mercator projection”.

What are square miles? Oh wait its "square kilometers" for you pinkos.

Isn't only like 10% of Australia actually inhabited though
Pretty sure most of the country is just barren outback

australia doesn't have to share continent with other countries

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection
That's what makes Greenland look so big on maps. The farther north something is, the more it's stretched.
For all I know (without a lot of fucking around to check), this pic could be making Germany look larger than it should be in relative size.

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>sphere

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Chinks will 100% own us by then, they’re more than half way right now.

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They won't do that because they're as pathetic and autistic about their shitty environment as Danes screeching about muh pristine snow

I came here to post this.

this is the way the world should be viewed

Geographic Europe goes to the Ural mountains.

No it isnt you just have a small brain

But there's more accurate 2D map models even if they're not fully accurate either

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Europe is actually bigger than the United States. But the funny thing is is that Canada is way bigger than the USA lmao imagine getting cucked by like 10 million people living on your northern border

imagine having to share a border

The us is bigger than Canada if you don’t include water area. Depending on how you measure it Canada, China, and the us change places with each other.

>my country is bigger than your country

Thats the price you pay when you convert a surface of a sphere into a 2d plain. All projection models have disproportions

Its the country version of
>muh dick

Because it’s based off of geopolitical importance. It’s why Mexico is just a skid mark between north and South America with Central America just a peanut in the shit.

pretty much

Fucking barely lol. You remove all the water from the map and condense the land mass and your maybe half. We have counties here bigger than your country.

>This is some big brain stuff
You should have learned this in elementary school.

Also if you want to find the real size of a country the EEZ can’t be ignored.

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fun fact, Russia is larger than the surface area of pluto. kind of funny to think about how russia has a border with north korea

So, when I drive to see my family in Colorado, I'm making the equivalent of an Ankara to Dusseldorf trip. Without ever leaving my own country.

Size does matter, Eurofags.

If you only include the lower 48/continental US it's only about 100/110 thousand more

Spoken like a true abo cock connoisseur.

>We have counties here bigger than your country
did you mean to say states?

Mate, i’m not Irish, calm down.
Also
>Nigger dick cognoscenti

god fucking damn, and all of the third world wants to immigrate to the first world?

A good quarter of America is fucking desert and arid landscape.

It’s absolutely insane. Africa, the most resource rich continent could be a god damn utopia if these monkeys could actually think past tomorrow.

Damn you're right, the continental US and Australia are almost exactly the same size.

Mental, I never knew Aus was that big.

mapfight.appspot.com/usc-vs-au/united-states-contiguous-australia-size-comparison

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>and it's all desert and mountains
Quality > quantity mate.

Fucking this how are people so dumb

Fuck off we are full!

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Well, you could google it? But, if you're too lazy, here.
youtu.be/8I_VpC6IuJs

>what is Mercator projection
zoomers and their education, everybody

Lol, an island person, enjoy walking across your entire country in a day.

>Why do maps never show the true size of countries?

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the left can't meme

And we have countries bigger than your states. Why is it that it's always a retarded post, it's an American? No wonder the jihadis hate you so much.

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So many more square miles of Aussie spiders to fear.

Because it's impossible to portray a sphere on a plane you fucking retard

>square kilometers
"Square" is a patriarchal concept, shitlord. It's "kilometers of bidimensionality."

kek
Koalaland is also 95% uninhabitable wasteland. I have to admit, I'm tempted to try and habit it, though. I bet I could. I can do anything, I'm fucking white!

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Land's End to John O'Groats (tip of Southern England to tip of Scotland) is 874 miles, bit longer than a day's walking mate. Now fuck off and fellate the corporations that are fucking you in the arse on a daily basis, bootlicker.

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Because it is impossible to accurately project the surface of a sphere onto a 2D image without some form of distortion. The kind of distortion you use is up to you, but it will be there. Because of its use in navigation, the Mercator Projection is the most common map used, and while it is very useful for navigation, as well as maintaining the shape of countries, it does a poor job of maintaining the area of countries compared to other countries that are further away from the equator.

My suggestion? Buy a globe.

They're not more accurate, they just give priority to another specification (i.e. accuracy of distances, accuracy of area etc.)

Oi m8, u got a loicense for that shitpost?

Plus I'm pretty sure that picture constitutes "extreme pornography."

What is "retarded" of the projection? It's just one of many, and it has many uses. You on the other hand don't seem to.

>european blaming America for the way european designed flags look

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Based Bulgaria bro. Nazdrave, let's drink rakia.

Picture related.

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>why are geospatial features distorted when converting a sphere into flat.
Sub Saharan detected

Adjusted for dick size.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall–Peters_projection

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>Braindead mutt can't tell the difference between a flag and a map
>posts a picture of a white man as if he was white himself, ''heh, I bet I will sound badass if I post this picture of a white American from 10+ years ago''

BASED Latvian.

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None of that matters in the context of geographic facts.

Because the Earth is flat and maps are all made to deceive you. The UN map is the most accurate.

Go to school

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this was 10x funnier in your head