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.
Martins says
Please show real map not minimized, how they look from space, all connectted
Sadagoapan Thiruvali says
Loved your maps. Especially that gif which scales down the distortion due to Meractor projection. That was awesome! May I use your images on Quora?
Brilliant Maps says
As long as you give credit back should be fine.
Bruce Packard says
The most impressive demonstration of this issue I’ve ever come across.