RealSizeWorld

The Earth doesn’t fit on a flat piece of paper. Explore true country sizes, map projections, geographic distortions and interactive quizzes. 🌍

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@BrilliantMaps Guess the north here!
https://t.co/PbVKHaeTTv

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@stats_feed Innacurate maps projection https://t.co/pi8rrwgNIK

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@fyristic Try guess!

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@zeroadulting https://t.co/LSW6RDHyOb
Maps, projections, science and fun with maps

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@stats_feed When Andromeda hit Milky Way

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@joelcomm There's no such thing as being too old. In most cases, age is simply an excuse.

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@spacedevin https://t.co/P42wUavuWP

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Europe according to Americans is basically ‘a few big blobs and some small ones we only remember when something explodes’.
You can kill that version instantly on https://t.co/lkgvGSwAaK park Poland, Ukraine or Turkey in the center, switch to Equal Earth or Mollweide, and watch the mental map collapse

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A flat map always distorts something.
Area, shape, distance or direction: pick your poison.
On https://t.co/GGclFwisVp you can drop any country or US state onto 18 different projections and instantly see the trade-off.
Mercator for navigation. Equal Earth for honest sizes. Dymaxion for continuity. And more.
https://t.co/excDb6IelJ

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@xruiztru Mercator projection od tricky one to compare lands...
https://t.co/4LYk5wGbB7
But yeah land distribution does not follow intuition

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The northern line looks longer because the map is stretching like cheap fabric. On Mercator that’s expected. On Equal Earth or Mollweide the same two lines suddenly tell a different story. Even better: park Africa dead center of the map and the ‘north is bigger’ illusion collapses. https://t.co/GGclFwisVp does the live switch across 18 projections and lets you drop any country in the middle (plus continental drift past + possible futures if you want to go full mad scientist). The lines are cute. The interactive version is meaner
https://t.co/excDb6IelJ

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Greenland looks bigger than Africa on most maps.
It’s not. Africa is ~14× larger.
Most tools only let you drag countries on Mercator.
https://t.co/GGclFwisVp lets you do it on 18 projections Mercator, Equal Earth, Dymaxion, Spilhaus, Berghaus Star, Gall-Peters and more.
Switch projection, drag, and watch the trade-offs in real time.
https://t.co/XfhomuKLPQ
#MapProjections #TrueSize #Geography #EqualEarth

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@TrueSizeOfMaps Poland

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@Sonderisfon Start wondering how my favorite map projection will look like
https://t.co/LSW6RDHyOb

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@lightsilver323 https://t.co/pi8rrwgNIK

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@SamVale29 https://t.co/pi8rrwgNIK
Grab this one

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@LucinehK_ Iran too https://t.co/58cgeSomqV

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@GlobalStatsX Just Mercator things https://t.co/pi8rrwgNIK

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@TrueSizeOfMaps Russia as the single country between Norway and North Korea is the ultimate map trick. Center the map on Russia and you will see
https://t.co/vbOUcjjdZL

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@TrueSizeOfMaps Lets put America in the center od World
https://t.co/sM7PVfszTS