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  • Aug 31, 2021
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    Eastern propaganda is crazy

  • rvi
    Aug 31, 2021
    Lamar

    wait canada that small?

    still 2nd largest in the world

  • Aug 31, 2021
    austin_butler_fan4

    This map false

    Pakistan bigger then Asia

    Pakistan zindabad 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

    South Asia actually not that different tbh

    Brits still f***ed every boundary and map they made there though

  • Aug 31, 2021
    sace

    Eastern propaganda is crazy

    The globe is racist

  • Aug 31, 2021

    Damn. Africa winning

  • Aug 31, 2021

    Colonizers couldnt stand Africa being the GOAT so they had to fudge the numbers

  • Aug 31, 2021

    Africa and south America should combine their forces and unite under one banner

    Well cal ourselves South Africa

  • Aug 31, 2021

    @op

    It’s because of racism believe it or not

  • Aug 31, 2021
  • Aug 31, 2021
    capers

    What is the reasoning? It’s interesting that almost all the distortion is above the equator, does that fall into the reasoning?

    Seen a TikTok and a couple other things about it

    They don’t want Africa looking that big

    And also places where people with darker skin are smaller

    White people was just being weird and insecure

  • Aug 31, 2021

    They have globes in classrooms guys, relax

  • Aug 31, 2021

    shouldn't canada fit onto the us like a puzzle
    that makes it look like the southwest corner would be like a thousand miles east of the north west corner of the us

  • Nessy 🦎
    Aug 31, 2021

    Russia small af

  • Aug 31, 2021

    also ive never seen a map that didnt make africa look the biggest

  • Nessy 🦎
    Aug 31, 2021
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    Beast Man

    The reasoning behind distorting size is still so weird to me. Like I get the reasoning and needing to pick and choose which thing to represent bc 3d world 2d image and everything, but I still can't help but feel minimizing Africa was part of the actual reasoning

    This doesnt really make sense

    The most popular map with the equator countries smaller just happened to be more practical for navigation and a lot of things

    At the time they didn’t have any reason to make africa smaller when they owned the place and could flex how big their empires were

  • Aug 31, 2021

    I really thought there was a lot of land mass north of Canada / north Canada

  • Aug 31, 2021

    Maps got me f***ed up

  • Aug 31, 2021
    rvi

    https://thetruesize.com

    cool site to compare countries over each other

    I knew africa was bigger than the normal map represented but i didn't know russia was made way bigger than it really is damn

  • Aug 31, 2021
    Nessy

    This doesnt really make sense

    The most popular map with the equator countries smaller just happened to be more practical for navigation and a lot of things

    At the time they didn’t have any reason to make africa smaller when they owned the place and could flex how big their empires were

    Flexing your empire is a W, but when your goal is permanent subjugation of a race, belittling them/their worth to the point that they believe it is a far bigger W. By your logic they shouldn't have spent so much effort covering up our history and accomplishments, because they missed out on the chance of flexing how all of our ancestors' wit made them just qualified enough to be slaves to the white man.

  • Aug 31, 2021

    It’s because we live on a sphere and when you flatten it out it looks smaller

    And I gotta do it like this

    And the places towards the poles become more distorted