Why Every World Map You've Ever Read is Wrong

I hate to be the one to break it to you but, every world map you've ever read is wrong! The week we take a look at map projections and their influence on us.

[kalinacore]

Bruh my teacher sent us this video for class and now reading the comments I’m confused

[Ibhenriksen]

"it's probably similar to the one you had growing up as a kid"
NOPE. South America was further west, Australia was further south. Cuba wasn't so damn close to Florida.

[SkyFonForger]

Don't schools teach the distortion of maps like at 4th grade?

[augustinblot]

It's impossible to have a right flat map of the world. I often hear Africans saying that the Peters projection is better one because it makes Africa "closer to its real size", ok... but it makes countries in poles (mainly Alaska) totally flat! They are not flat!
And... I actually wonder: Are globes wrong too? Or are they right?

[bunsenn]

We actually had a weird projection in my school. It was a map with an elliptical outline, and the countries and navigational lines were warped a bit, but it still preserved shape and size well. I forget which projection it was, though.

[dhammikejayawickrama]

So if all the maps are wrong where can i find a right map please reply I would really appreciate it.

[MoistMumble]

We were each given mini globes for geography in school when I was 8 or 9, a little bigger than a tennis ball. Isn't that a better option?

[stephenandersen]

a Mercator projection isn't "wrong" it depends on what data you're trying to depict. A Mercator project allows for lines of constant course. nothing worng with that. if you want to project equal areas that is a different matter.

[okaro]

California and Portugal are on the same latitudes so the map projection does not distort those.

[ivanrodriguesca]

the website is really glitchy and when i double tap a country it changes shape without me even moving it. for example, sometimes I can move a country to compare it to another but i try to move it back and it doesn't match the borders of the country it really belongs to but when i double tap it suddenly changes and the borders match. WTF????

[violetsaid]

Australia used to have large bodies of water on four sides. Nothing to do with size. Do not tell me that everything is JUST the same as always. To me its no big deal, I deal with it, no problem

[sayanorasonic]

I don't get how in the traditional map, countries shrinks when placed in South but appears larger in North

[Berkay-xlhu]

Correction: California is fourth the size of Porteguse not twice.

[cnorrton]

maps are drawn the way in which the video describes, however his reasoning is not sound (he alludes to the fact that it is the only way). Maps are drawn in this manner because that is the excepted norm, you can google how to make a ball from a flat piece of paper..

[bobbyalexander]

I know what is real. Water runs downhill, only.

[sandipkumar]

lol ...satellites have been there for more than 50 years and we still don't have a real map.

[rickymanaiamanawa]

Oh is this just a video on who you want to blame it on.

[George-Hawthorne]

What about the robinson projection Map

[Ushio]

It's 2016 time for every school to get a holographic projector to project a 3D projection of the Earth to scale for our map.

[JakusKugelchen]

Australia is smaller than europe. it is infact the smallest continent