This Is Why Your World Map Is Completely Wrong 🫨

World maps show the wrong sizes of the countries and continents. Here are the accurate sizes of those countries on the map.

by Florid Miston 2

#facts #history #map

[camilo]

Paris to Vladivostok is 8700 km
Bissau to Djibouti is 6400 km
These distances are way off

[StevieTruth]

Wow, people don't understand how a flat map is stretched because the planet is a sphere.

[ChristopherSmith-jx]

A flat map distorts but not nearly as much as this video does. This is utterly ridiculous.

[GlamorousTitanic]

The big issue that has always confounded cartographers is that it is so difficult to try and accurately scale countries from a spherical globe onto a 2D map.

[Boldy-ur]

You are not misled, you just didn’t pay attention at school.

[cee-emm]

I like how Europe was completely ignored and just grouped into Asia

[AngelicSorcere]

Just imagine, previous cartographers doesn’t want to include the Philippines because it is too small and would only show as dots in the map. When in reality, it is bigger than the United Kingdom.

[neptali]

It's not "wrong." It's called a Mercator projection map used to help sailors accurately navigate the oceans with a compass.

[mattabraham]

The Modified Mercator distorts so that true compass headings can be drawn port to port. Or position to position. The breakdown occurs at the poles. But it allows ocean going vessels to proceed on direct headings lifted from drawn projections. To get size comparison draw on an equal area projection.

[mikewarren]

This is the result of the chosen projection method. All of them distort reality in terms of shape, area, etc. It is difficult to project a sphere onto a flat plane.

[That_Lad]

Mercator projection. It's pretty good for navigation, but the countries are distorted in size.

[DhruveelDave]

That's as fake as it can be, India alone is 3000+km wide from east to west.

[clscz_]

width of eurasia = 14'000 km💀
width of Africa = 7'500 km
You are so wrong❌️❌️

[insiderevolverstudios]

4, 600 miles across from its fathest point West to East for Africa, and 9, 000 miles from its farthest point West to East for the Europeian/Asian contenant so this is a lie and one that can easily by Googled!

[АлексЗахарьянц]

Bro the Eurasia's territory is 16000 km distance from one side to the other 💀💀💀

[coopertown]

Wait till people realize how big Antarctica really is.🤯

[yodyl]

There are other world mapa you can look at. This is called the mercator projection which wants to keep direction, form and angles relative to make sea travel easier while sacrifing realism and scale. Its generally the widest spread map form but there are others trying to keep scale consitent but sacrificing any important points that would be neccessary for navigation at sea.

[PoornikaAggarwal]

Not to forget that that the blue map depicts India totally incorrectly.

[SuperPirate]

This is a Mercators projection chart, the size distortion gets greater the nearer you are to the poles .

[hoysebebetv]

Proof that technology and smart phones are the reason ppl are getting dumber and dumber