While it’s well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly by how much. Countries close to the equator barely change, whereas countries further north shrink dramatically.
The maps are all the work of climate data scientist @neilrkaye.
You can see an animation below:
Finally the map gives a bar graph to show the relative size of the world’s largest countries:
Also, see:
Code Clements says
As a retired map reader, planner, totally amazing and wonderfully interesting
nidhi khanna says
superb work. thank you so much.