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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 171 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Damn, that Mercator projection making A4 look almost as big as Greenland...

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Remember Africa is about three times larger than Canada

[–] TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 14 points 21 hours ago

Pretty insane to consider that sort of scale, this projection really distorts reality

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] not@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That's the neat part, it's twice the size of A4, and half the size of A2.

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

So almost 2 greenlands or 2 almost greenlands?

[–] DamnianWayne@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

At least 2 football fields

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a map of the largest PDF, world for scale