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The world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projection (lemmy.world)

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Smaller in area?

According to wikipedia, these are the total areas of both countries:

USA: 9,833,520 km2 Canada: 9,984,670 km2

I am certain I am just misunderstanding the system behind this new projection but reading it is supposed to display accurate area, it seems Canada should show up bigger.

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You have to look at the land area.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

And lakes and rivers those count too