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Denmark and the Brazilian Amazon in comparison...
Fucking hell.
One can check for yourself here
It may look small but large swaths of Brazil is just farmland, not virgin rainforest like the Amazon where <em>isolated tribes</em> still exist to this very day.
Actually, Greenland isn't that big. The more north or south a country is, the bigger it looks on a map. Because the Earth is round and maps are flat.
Greenland is roughly the size of Saudi Arabia.
This map is wrong. The countries fit into africa are actually distorted by the mercator projection, making them look bigger than they actually are. Look at Madagascar and the United Kingdom. They look roughly the same size on this map, but it even lists the UK as 242 thousand square km in area and Madagascar as 587 thousand. They also included Ireland as part of the UK, but even the actual UK alone is around the size of Madagascar in this picture. [Here's a more accurate comparision between these two countries](http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!Nzc3MTg1MA.NjM5MTgwNQ*MjQxMDM3OTQ(MjExMzk2ODM~!GB*OTUyNTg4Ng.MzE0NjMzNjQ), showing that the UK is less than half the size of Madagascar.
Using countries distorted by the Mercator projection is exactly what this map is complaining about. The US is also missing Alaska (and Hawaii) and Europe is missing 60% of its area (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Norway and Finland), even though it shows their full areas on the list. As I already mentioned, it also includes Ireland as part of the United Kingdom.
This map's goal is to fight "immappancy" but it's actually spreading it.
Maps generated via http://thetruesize.com
Edit: No disrespect intended for Luxembourg. I hear it's a wonderful place. I was just making a joke referencing this post: https://redd.it/6ct8r6.
Edit2: Thanks for the gold, karma, and the fun. I tip my fedora to all!
I'm sorry OP but posts like this one here are really affecting he quality on this sub negatively. This is not limited to your post, but any screenshot comparing the size of countries does little more than illicit two dimensional discussion.
If anyone is interested, The True Size Of is an online site that let's you compare relative sizes of countries.
Just to be clear, I don't want to insult anyone with my question, just a general lack of knowledge about South America:
Surfing on the internet I came couple times I came a cross posts that say that Argentina don't get along with the rest of South America. Is this true and if yes, what are the reasons for it?
How is UK perceived in your country as of today?
How is it like to live in a country that is as big as Europe? On truesize.com you guys seem to cover territory from northern Sweden to Sicily
Here's another way to look at it, SFO to NYC
Or play around yourself at thetruesize.com - rotate the country with the little compass in the bottom left.
Mercator projection is just awful.
I am looking at you, google maps.
Edit - here is an interactive map using Mercator. See how different Greenland and Russia look when you place them more towards the equator? Mercator distorts the area of countries a LOT the further it is from the equator. There are better projections out there (national Geographic uses this one) but Mercator is used widely despite the criticism.
Something that people may not realize is:
Ethiopia (426,400 mi²) is almost 2x the size of France (248,573 mi²).
Map projections might trick you into thinking that African countries are not very big, but in reality: See Picture
The logistical problems were huge over such a long supply route.
People don't realize how absolutely huge Africa is. Check out this site to compare country sizes and overlay them on Africa. The smallest zones in the OP are about the size of Delaware.
slightly bigger? Just Hokkaido is half the size of Romania
Japan is bigger than Germany.
Mjo sant, men den kartan visar hur Australien skulle sett ut om det legat på norra jordklotet i höjd med Sverige och vise versa. Den visar en jämförelse av Sverige och Australien där båda är missbildade på samma sätt.
Så ja den är egentligen felaktig men det är samtidigt en rättvis jämförelse.
If you place canada over europe on a map you will see that BC to NS is about the same as UK to Iran!!! Yes, Canada is that big. Th EU Rail pass doesnt take you to Iran (and beyond if you look slightly further north)
I tried to place western BC over the UK, and tried my best to adjust the placement:
Also: map projections. Check this out: http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTM3ODE2Njk.MzEzMjU4MA*NTQ5OTQzOA(MTM2MzgxMTA~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTUxNTMzNTQ.ODU3NzIxNA)NA
The US is a bit further from the equator than Australia, thus, on common maps, which are skewed projections of a sphere onto a flat surface, it appears larger than it is. This effect is a lot more noticeable with e.g., Greenland, Alaska and Russia.
since asutralia is more "round" i am sure its tough to actually comprehend... a lot of people dont realize the maps we all grew up with are scaled in such a way that things at the bottom of the map appear smaller than they really are... check this out.. its australia's true size on top of canada.. bigger than you thought eh? http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTc0MjIxNTI.NjY2OTIy*MzYwMDAwMDA(MA~!AU*MTQ0MjIwMDk.MjE1MzE2MzU)Mw
Here is a cool website you might like: The True Size Of. It lets you drag and drop countries around the globe so that you can compare them with each other and adjusts correctly for latitude.
Just for note, here are why there are sub-groups within supporter groups.
Land Area
Florida - 170,300 km^2
England - 130,279 km^2
Club Distance
[^(UK overlayed onto the US)](http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTQzNjE2MDk.MTA4ODUwMzQ*MTMyMTUyNDQ(NDg1MjQ1MQ~!GB*NjU0NjY0Nw.MTAyNTQwMzU\)NA)
Closest club to Orlando - Atlanta United - 705 km
Furthest club distance in EPL - AFC Bournemouth to Sunderland - 562 km
tl;dr: The US is big.
Which is one of the reasons why many American fans feel as close, if not closer, to EPL teams than we do to MLS clubs. Let's look at someone who lives in St. Louis.
Their closest club, the Chicago Fire, is ~475 km away. Let's be honest, chances of them making the four and a half hour drive to a home game isn't going to happen, at least not on any sort of regular basis: you're not going to find any season ticket holders in St. Louis. Furthermore, the MLS gets very little coverage in the states. It is significantly easier for me to watch any EPL team now that NBCSN has picked up the league.
Here is the Chicago Fire Schedule. Note how most of the games are on "CSN Chicago." That's a local station for Chicago only.
So on one hand, you've got an MLS team that's so far away it makes going to a game unlikely and that you can't watch on TV. On the other hand you've got an EPL team that's so far away it makes going to a game unlikely but you can watch on TV every weekend. So which does it make more sense to support?
edits for links
According to this online map tool here California is a little bigger than Italy.
imgur link for mobile
What kind of link uses brackets?
Edit thanks /u/_teslaTrooper for showing me how to link it properly!
The map is wrong. The countries were not adjusted to the scale of distortion after replacement. Mexico should appear larger and Great Britain should appear smaller.
click away the popup
click on "clear map"
type the name of the country
drag
Besides the size changing, the country you drag starts to rotate close to the poles. Try dragging France on top of north Greenland
if you go on thetruesize.com and drag Australia around it's pretty big, pretty much the same as the continental US.
The "problem" is most of it is less then ideal for living aka a desert, there's a similar one of these unbelievable but true things along the lines of "%90 of the Australian population lives in 10% of the country" i dont have the real numbers but essentially we all live in big cities on the coast because if you go inland at all it becomes max max.
so with no one living there and no crops growing there why not let livestock farms be as big as they please, let larger numbers of cattle graze larger areas, they practically migrate to where the food is naturally growing, some farms use helicopters to find and round up their cattle
The Mercator Projection fucks up your perspective of size. What happens is that the further away from the equator the bigger it appears to be. GB is from ~52 degrees north to about 59 degrees north, while New Zealand is from ~35 degrees south to ~47 degrees south, so it appears a little bit smaller on a mercator projection map. And while the real difference between the two is not that noticeable when looking at the map you have the feeling that GB is bigger. Take a look at http://thetruesize.com/
Using a website that compares the size of countries, I found that
Vatican City is the size of an average shopping mall in Singapore
Sumatra is bigger than Norway and is about the same size as Sweden
If you stretch Indonesia vertically from Singapore upwards, it goes all the way up into Northern Mongolia
Myanmar is taller than the West coast of Continental US
Chile stretches from the northernmost part of Canada to Mexico
Papua New Guinea is twice as big as both Koreas combined
Russia stretches from Singapore all the way into Mainland Africa
Monaco is only as twice as big as Changi Airport/is the size of Sengkang and Punggol combined/is smaller than Jurong
Vietnam is about the same size as Japan. Northern Vietnam even looks a bit like Hokkaido
You can see for yourself!
I wonder how much people live within that Java outline across Netherlands, Germany and Poland. (Stretch it out to include the entire Hague-Rotterdam-Amsterdam megacity, and the whole of the Rhine-Ruhr)
edit: According to this site, the population would be about 54m. So Java is 3x as dense as that outline in Europe.
Why are Americans so scared of looking at the [true size](http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTYwNzg2NTc.MTA2OTcxNzU*MjM5MTU1MDY(NzE3MjM0Mg~!US-CA*OTc2MzY4NQ.MTk3NDg0MzY\)Mw~!US-TX*MTA2NTU4NDU.MjE0MzkyOTA\)NA~!US-NV*ODA4MDcxNA.MjA2MzkxMzk\)NQ~!US-AZ*ODczMDMxOQ.MjAwNjE1NTg\)Ng~!US-OR*OTYyNzYxMw.MjA0MTE0M...) of their states when they compare to the US?
He chose Denmark as a size comparison, Denmark is 2,210,410 km^2, Alaska is 1.7 million km^2 so no US state is five times the size of Denmark.
To give an idea of size to non-Americans,
United Kingdom and Europe
> English Channel to Glasgow
> Larger than Germany
> Almost the distance from Munich to Rome
Asia
> India, New Delhi to Indore
> Vietnam, Hanoi to Da Nang
> South Korea, or North Korea
Australia
> Adelaide to Canberra
Props to http://thetruesize.com/ for size comparisons.
According to the ranger, Europeans (not just Germans) that visit Yosemite see the size of the park on a map like this, and they just have the total wrong sense of scale for California.
He told me that some foreigners seem to think that California is "state sized" not "country sized," whatever that means to them, and when they see that Yosemite is such a small part of California, that means the forest they're in, which is a pretty small part of Yosemite, must be manageable.
They don't think California is comparable to a huge chunk of all of Europe.
Nu poti sa proiectezi Pamantul fara sa iasa deformat. In imagine se vede cat de mare e Romania in raport cu sudul SUA dar statele din nord sunt deformate si par mai mari din cauza proiectiei. Daca ai muta Romania mai sus, ar fi din ce in ce mai mare. Poti sa vezi asta usor pe http://thetruesize.com/.
I used thetruesize.com. What do you think?
A lot of people dont realize the sheer size of Africa because they are use to the Mercator projection which makes Africa look small compared to its true relative size.
Yes Asia is large but we KNOW Asia is large because it is HUGE on a Mercator projection.
Edit: to put it into even better perspective, Africa is about the same size as Russia, Mongolia and China combined.
6.602 million mi² (Russia) + 604,600 mi² (Mongolia) + 3.705 million mi² (China) = 10.91 million mi²
Africa is 11.73 million mi²
I think people forget or fail to appreciate just how huge Alaska is, because it's always scaled down on those crappy maps of the contiguous 48 with Alaska and Hawaii shown just off the coast of California or whatever.
Alaska contains about a sixth of America's total land area by itself, and it's just one state out of fifty. If Alaska was its own country, it would be the 17th largest in the world, between Libya and Iran, and is bigger than any nation in Europe. It's about seven times the size of Germany, and four times the size of California, and more than twice the size of Texas. Alaska is big. You can play with the true size of Alaska [here](http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTYyNTUyNjI.MzgzNzgxMA*MTkwNTk4Nw(NDQ1NDgxNQ~!US-AK*NDQ3OTM1Ng.Mjc4ODAyODM).
It's about ~~80% of the size~~ 95% of the size.
I think a lot of people think it's about half since we're closer to the equator and a lot of maps distort the further you go from the equator. An interesting tool that I found on reddit somewhere is thetruesize.com that lets you move the countries around to see the distortion in various places, and get a better idea of how large/small countries are.
Edit: 80% of the size of all of the USA, 95% of the size of the contiguous states.
i agree. as i have recently looked into the topic, here two links:
- http://thetruesize.com/ - lets users choose countries and then move their surface area around to see the size distortion on a map using the common mercantor projection
- what is the best map projection?
That's what happens when you project a 3D sphere onto a 2D surface, places on the top and bottom of the map appear much larger than they actually are. This website gives a good indication.
Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world. Its area is roughly four times greater than that of Cuba's.
Keeping that in mind, the linked image is still Mercator and Cuba is smaller than it should be in comparison. The heavy borders also give an impression of more weight, which might make the size different seem more pronounced.
Sumatra is still clearly larger than Cuba, but if you drag it around, you can see how much bigger it gets when you go northwards.
Scandinavia is pretty huge. Go to http://thetruesize.com and put Sweden with its northern tip touching Scania on the map, and your Sweden’s Scania will cover Corsica.
Everything north of the midpoint is a frozen, barren hellscape, of course, but that’s reflected in game as well, with tribes and reindeer pagans.
Keep in mind that this type of map projection will make objects farther to the north/south appear larger than they really are. So it isn't really as big compared to Harvey as this map makes it look.
Here's a cool site that helps you compare actual sizes of things: thetruesize.com
Edit: formatting fail
"You can't see the scale of my country most of Europe could fit in Texas."
Yer not even close mate. [(http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTQ4Mjg5ODA.MTE5MDQyNjI*MjI4ODY4NTY\(MTQ1MjQwNjM~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTAwMjQwNzU.MjUwMjM1MTc\(MTc1\)MA~!IN*NTI2NDA1MQ.Nzg2MzQyMQ\)MQ~!CN*OTkyMTY5Nw.NzMxNDcwNQ\(MjI1\)Mg~!US-TX*ODMwOTI1Nw.MjIzNjk5Nzg\)Mw)]
It's because of the Mercator Projection, the closer you go to the poles the larger things appear, whereas at the equator they look smaller (or maybe the right size, I can't remember). The distortion is caused because we're mapping a 3D object in 2D, which is difficult. Wasting time on this website can be pretty fun and informative.
> we're actually a little bit shorter than the vertical length of North America.
That's... not true
Nothing against you personally OP but I'm getting tired of seeing these maps. We get it, Mercator bad, just buy a globe, but there's a point where these maps are exhausted of their uniqueness. If anyone wants to compare countries go to the the true size website and explore for yourself.
What? India is massively bigger than Texas. It's about a third the size of the entire US.
The population density is still mind-boggling, though.
Wow, Andorra. We could fit District of Columbia into your territory!
Based on the things you've mentioned, New England seems appropriate. Your impressions about being generally more progressive are true, especially around the the Boston area. Boston would be the area I'd probably recommend, echoing others here. Vermont and Maine can get awfully rural.
California is really big, so the San Francisco area is quite a bit different culturally and climate wise from Los Angeles, where most of our tv and movies come from. Playing around with http://thetruesize.com, it looks like if you put Los Angeles in Stockholm, San Francisco would be somewhere near Trondheim.
You might also consider the northwest, Seattle and Portland. There's skiing close by, the climates are quite mild with low altitude snow and temperatures 30 C and above both being very rare. The University of Washington has one of the best medical schools in the country, so the medical scene here is competitive and advanced.
For the rockies idea, Denver is one of my favorite cities to visit. It's less expensive than anything else you or I have mentioned and it's a well developed medium sized city.
I guess it's not the amount of zones but the arrangement that they're talking about. To be fair time zones are really just messy everywhere
I definitely used to underestimated the size.. I really like this site for comparing countries http://thetruesize.com/
The True Size: Let's you compare the actual sizes of countries in an interactive map, as some projections tend to skew the sizes of countries.
Radio Garden: Let's you listen to any radio station anywhere around the globe. My personal favorite. You can notice how the styles and genres vary across the globe
A little, the Midwest is a little debatable as far as what is in there. This is what wikipedia lists in that region. The UK is about the size of Minnesota and Iowa, so yea it's a massive country with lots of brands being pretty exclusive to East or West Coast and the Midwest and South also having their own regional things too. Here is a fun little website you can use to compare geographical sizes : http://thetruesize.com
> Neat-O. Kan se at der er blevet taget højde for forvrængningen som opstår, når man projekterer kloden på et fladt kort.
Yep. Som u/Rilow skriver, er det http://thetruesize.com/ der er sjovt i dag.
China is not a 'narrow geographic focus'.
Here: http://thetruesize.com
Drag that over the Rome/Medieval campaign areas and compare them. It's quite a geographically - and culturally - diverse place.
Yes. The maps you usually see are contorted to be a square or ellipse. This means that the further you go north or south from the equator, the bigger the countries are compared to what they are depicted as.
Here is a non-contorted map. The US is comparably tiny and even Russia does not look that big, huh? Explanation here
Wow, Los Angeles is bigger than I thought, at least larger than my home country: http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTI0ODYwMzk.MTIyNzQyNjI*NjQxNzI4Nw(NTg5NDYxMw~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTAwMjQwNzU.MjUwMjM1MTc(MTc1)MQ~!IN*NTI2NDA1MQ.Nzg2MzQyMQ)MA~!CN*OTkyMTY5Nw.NzMxNDcwNQ(MjI1)Mg~!LU*OTI4MjY2NQ.MTM2Njc0MDc)Mw
Hey everyone, I uploaded the map with labels. https://www.reddit.com/r/mexico/comments/4j89tq/mercator_projection_size_disortion_here_are_the/
I added to the ttitle that this is just to show the disortion that the Mercator Map Projetion creates, and not some political statement as some people on here were saying. (in other words: I'm not a "chairo").
If anyone is interested, here is the web page that allowed me to make this map, it is pretty fun to play with it! http://thetruesize.com/
Braindrain is happening nonetheless.
Ukraine needs to return most of them.
As a Ukrainian I doubt Ukraine needs EU, it would be good of course, but it's not a vital precondition.
I would show this map to Dutch, so that they understand what is Ukraine, at least basics:
It's a completely European country, just not rich, yet. Without colonial past, without guilt complex.
Central Europe is the future of Europe.
that site allows tyou to click a country. it highlights a shape the size of the country borders. you can then drag that shape all over the world and it correctly resizes the shape and distorts it for the map distortion. the size of Texas on the map above is correct. besides if the map didn't account for the size variance Texas would need to be even bigger than depicted, on account of being closer to the equator. in other words in traditional maps Europe benefits more form the size distortion than the us does.
Overly a contiguous part of the USA over Europe, also note the population of the USA is roughly 320 million, & the population of the EU is roughly 500 million.
Forget for a moment a/any/the cultures, ideologies, & politics; the comparison between America & a given European country (or collection there of), there are some huge differences in scale... I'm not saying they absolutely can't, but it's a bit of a shock to the system whatever way methinks.
If Seattle was in Ireland, New York City would be on the border of Kazakhstan. France is the size of Texas and the UK would fit inside California.
Sri Lanka is [not exactly small](http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTM0MDQ5ODU.MTIxMjcxMjI*MTIwODk1MTE(ODkwNzg3MQ~!LK*MTQxNjg2OTM.MTU2ODk3ODA(MjIy\)Mw) and it has a couple mountain ranges and central highlands. If there was a tsunami large enough to flood most of that country, the primary United States response would be assessing the level of world wide damage that the asteroid that caused it had done, and determine how to handle internal food distribution in the coming decades long winter.
I don't think you understand. This map compensates for the Mercator projection. Hence why Mexico looks so large compared to what you normally see.
You can in fact compare distance and area at different latitudes.
No, I will never tire of calling people out when they talk out of their ass.
For those people arguing about whose place is bigger, this site lets you overlay countries to see their actual sizes.
What we see on typical world maps isn't really "accurate", because the closer to the poles you get, the more exaggerated the size becomes on a rectangular map.
That site compares countries latitudes and displays how much mercator projection gives an erroneous idea of them.
In particular in this image he placed USA where it should be in comparison of europe keeping mercator size and changing only longitude.
large part of europe is between usa and canada... this could explain why europeans are ( or they should be ) more sensible to climate changes and the gulf stream.
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The final image for example compares the top 10 largest countries puting them at equator side by side
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EDIT: to make your own comparison you can use this site : http://thetruesize.com
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the link you gave shows it isn't. First of all you had a huge chunk hanging in the ocean offset NW. A more accurate representation would be:
http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTUzMTI4OTg.MTE1MTE0MzI*MjUxMzUwMjY(MTMyNzg1ODA~!CONTIGUOUS_US*ODU0NDU4OQ.MjI0NzE3ODE)MA~!NO*MjE4NzQyMw.Mzk4NDYxMw)MQ~!SE*MjQ5NzI3OA.NjM5ODQ1MQ)Mg~!FI*MzA4Mzk1Mg.Mjg0MjU1MQ)Mw~!BY*MTEzNzM4Nw.MzQ0NzgyMzY)NA~!LV*M... ~~in which case the the rest of eastern europe would easily fill in any seas.~~ That's entirely excluding russia of which either 100% or 30% is european depending on who you ask.
Edit: Filled in most of the seas as best i could with the excluded countries. Much of ukraine and all of russia still excluded.
The maps look consistent to me in terms of general proximity of the terra firma, just that one is a ludicrously stretched projection. I really don't see any real differences yet, in that if one puts the first map into photoshop and tries to curve and distort it uniformly, they can probably end up with something very close to the globe map.
Have you played with this at all? http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTU2MzI1OTA.NDc3NTAwOQ*MzI2NTkxNTA(NDgzMjk3OA~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTAwMjQwNzU.MjUwMjM1MTc(MTc1)MA~!IN*NTI2NDA1MQ.Nzg2MzQyMQ)MQ~!CN*OTkyMTY5Nw.NzMxNDcwNQ(MjI1)Mg
You're right on both counts. The map uses the mercator projection, which condenses the equator (where north Africa is) and expands at the poles (where Russia is).
You can see for yourself here
Here. It's interactive.
I also like this site as it can help you judge how things can be skewed. Brazil is also a surprising one. I knew it was large, but I guess the mercator projection really does skew things.
It probably shouldn't be, though Texas has a cultural association with being large ('Everything's bigger in Texas!') and it's one of the largest States. Canadians are still heavily influenced by American media so it wouldn't be too surprising if we've internalized some American ideas, even subconsciously.
The actual sizes of other countries is another thing many people don't get right, mainly because of the Eurocentric projection used in many maps. The map most of us grew up looking at was created with a Mercator projection, however this greatly distorts the size of some continents. There's a pretty cool website that shows you the true size of different countries and it can sometimes be surprising how your internal representation of a country can be so different from reality.
Making the assumption that you're from the US, I think you really need to understand the size of Australia.
[The True Size Of..: Australia vs USA](http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTQ4NzE0NDI.MTA4NTQ4MDE*MTAyMjUzMDQ(MzUxMTU5Mjk~!AU*MTUwNjUzMjc.MjQwODczNTc\)Nw)
Greenland is not that big... Map projections.
Huehue Brazil is 4 times more Clay than Greenland.
If y'all are looking at a regular old Google Map in this argument - Alaska is greatly over-sized.
A globe is the best way to see a less-distorted representation of the world.
E: http://thetruesize.com/ to visualize how latitude can greatly affect the perceived size of places.
No, Kazakhstan is not really bigger than India. Check for yourself: http://thetruesize.com
Usually Google and other maps use a map projection where countries far from the equator look bigger than they are. That's why Kazakhstan looks so big. And Greenland looks huge. Actually both are roughly the same size as India.
Greenland is tiny, and has always been. It's the Mercator projection that makes it seem much bigger on maps. Compare Greenland on Google Maps and on Google Earth and you'll see this.
Weird that Italy is twice the square miles as Florida, yet they look really similar in size.
Acredito que a comparação deva ter sido feita nesse site The true size Ele acaba com as distorções de tamanho.
Alias é bem interessante ver como certos países que no mapa mundi tradicional são "normais", na verdade são gigantes pra caralho.
Because of how map projections work NZ appears smaller than it is
Use http://thetruesize.com to superimpose nz onto your state
Watch this video for explanation of how maps distort sizes https://youtu.be/kIID5FDi2JQ
Altså...... SÅ stort er texas i forhold til finnmark. Hvem i all verdens land og rike har laget det kartet ditt? Kina? Wth? Må være at jeg misforstår at du brukte det bildet seriøst ment? Spøk som gikk over hodet mitt?
Source: http://thetruesize.com
You will have to give me a specific one because the uber anti-gun sentiment is usually from Europe, Canada, and Australia. Europe I already gave my answer, Australia is mostly desert that hardly anybody lives in with the population centers around the coast and Canada is concentrated on its southern boundaries for the most part. The closest countries that are similar to the US for size and pop density are Russia, Brazil, and China. China is the only one with a strict gun ban.
Check this website out: http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY5Mzk2MDQ.NTk5ODc5NQ*Mjg4NDUyOTA(NTk5MzcyOA~!US-MD*NjUxMDU0NA.MjE3NjgxNTI)Mw just search for a state/country and then just drag it and compare.
Si, pero no importa mucho porque la página adapta el area de los países dependiendo de adonde muevas los perfiles, más a los polos más grande, más al ecuador más chico
The United States is very big: http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTQ4NjE2NjQ.MTA0NDA3NTc*MTMxMDc5MjI(MTI1MTQ3Ng~!GB*ODMxMDg0Nw.MTQ0MTE4MTY)Mw~!US-AK*Mjg3MTkxNg.MzI2MTQwMjI)NA~!US-HI*MzQxMzM4MQ.MjM4MTY0ODE)NQ
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Most of it is at latitudes with very easy climates to live and farm in. There's room and resources for a whole lot of people.
I like this comparison better. In terms of shape and curvature, japan does a decent job of impersonating the original 13 colonies, i.e. pretty much the entire east cost of the USA:
I live in Belgium and have some friends that have worked in the DRC. The impression I got from them is that there are simply too many factions to keep up with. One of them told me that it's pointless to create neatly organized groups when analyzing the situation, as many simply function as sorts of "mafias" or along constantly-fluctuating pragmatic lines.
Another thing people fail to consider is just how huge the DRC is. If we overlay the country over Europe, it stretches from the [westernmost coast of France, all the way to Belarus](http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTYzOTYyNDM.NTE1NjQ5MQ*MzIxMjY5NTE(MTA0MTc5NjY~!CD*NTgyMTMwOA.MTcwOTkxODc).
High speed rail lines are crazy expensive, and the US is [a little bit bigger](http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTQzNDYzMjQ.OTU5MjQzMA*NDEwNjQ5OQ(Mjg5MzEyMDY~!CONTIGUOUS_US*ODE2ODQyMQ.MTE1MzI5MTQ(MTc1\)MQ~!JP*MA.MTgwMDAwMDA\)MA) than Japan is.
When you're dealing with a country the size of the US, per-mile infrastructure cost of transportation systems becomes a substantial consideration.
this was done with "thetruesize". It's a website to see the real size of countries actually, so this isn't wrong, the proportions are correct.
I was talking about distances, not land area.
[Do me a favor and Drag the Greek mainland into mainland Europe...](http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTU0MDcwNzk.OTc2NjQyNg*MjYxNjgzMzA(MTQ1NzU1NTc)
See?
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> The EU alone manages to have a rail system spanning the geographic area that beats the US, with lots of cross border passenger and freight trains
Size wise, the EU is close to the 48 contiguous 48 US States, but it would still fit in them with room to spare. For a really rough comparison, this link shows all of the EU member states stuffed into the US with sizing corrected for the Mercator projection.
Though, I would still argue that the US's lack of a decent passenger rail system has more to do with the timing of our infrastructure build out. Much of the US west wasn't built up heavily until the 20th century with the building of the US Interstate highway system. Since then, the political will to build a passenger rail system has just not existed.
This is the consequence of late sunday internet browsing, a couple of months ago Tool Used: Amazon AWS "True Size of" True Size Countries that can be fit: 1.Germany over TS, AP, KA 2.France over MP, MH 3.United Kingdom over CG, OR 4.Italy over UP, Bihar, WB 5.Spain over North India and NCT 6.Portugal over WB 7.Belgium over Assam, Meghalaya 8.Netherlands over Bihar 9.Israel over KA 10.Latvia over Arunachal 11.Denmark over Ladakh in J&K 12.Czech Republic over Kashmir Valley, J&K 13.Austria over Rajasthan desert 14.Switzerland over Nagaland 15.Hungary + 3 countries that i could not remember over Souther TN-Kerala, Goa-MH, Manipur
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So I bothered to check this and, I had pictured Austria being much bigger.. http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTYyNDYzNjY.Njk1NzgwMg*MjU4NzI1Mzc%28ODQxMjg3~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTU2NzY.MTgwMDM3MTY%29Mw~!AT*NzE2ODQ3OQ.MTI3NTA1NjY%29NQ
You can fiddle around with a map online (link below), dragging something (Japan) over something else (United States) to get a better feel for how large it is.
Japan is larger than you think.
Not perfectly. There would be spots that wouldn't be covered, and other spots that might get covered twice. If you look into how we make maps, is kinda the same thing (taking a round earth, and projecting it onto a sheet of flat paper). Each point on the earth corresponds to only one point on the map (It'd be a pretty crappy map if New York was on their twice, for example). The problem is, due to some ugly math, you can never perfectly map the earth on a flat sheet.
Sometimes, lines that are straight on a globe get curved on a map, or areas of land masses get grossly distorted. All kinds of weird things can happen. But, you'll never have every point perfectly mapped out, some kind of distortion will occur.
Here is a wikipedia page that goes into more detail.
Just for fun I decided to do one of those [size compare](http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!ODU0NTE0Ng.NDkwMzI5Mw*MzQ4MTE4MDU(Mjc1MDM3MDA~!LT*MTMxNjcwNDk.MjgyMjAyMjk\)MA~!DK*MTU4NzY4NjA.MjU5MTc1Mzc\)MQ~!CH*MTYwODQxNDM.MjU4Mjc3NTU\)Mg~!IS*MTQ4NjUwODE.MjE3MTIzNjY\)Mw~!LV*MTM4MDEyNjA.MjcwMjEzMzM\)NA~!IE*M...) maps with all of the countries listed. Other than Malta to ACT the closest in size is Victoria to Denmark, but Victoria is still more than 6 times larger.
10 hours?
"Cannonball" racing has been a thing in various forms over the years. It's a coast-to-coast race full of mystery, intrigue, and a total disdain for the law.
I think the current record is 28 hours?
So balls-out. Stop for gas only. Multiple drivers. 120mph+ average speeds. And it's going to take you 28 hours.
The US is larger than you believe it to be. :)
Edit: 28 hours