How Most Maps Are LYING To You

Why All maps are lying to you! Take a look at Greenland on Google Maps, notice how its really big, especially when you compare it to a whole continent like africa.
And countries like the democratic republic of congo, which lies directly on the equator, get bigger when you drag them to the north. So why is that the case? As you all hopefully know
the earth is a sphere and when you try to project a sphere to a rectangle there will be some sort of gaps. But because these would look ugly on maps, the best thing to fix this problem is to fill these gaps by stretching the map at the top and the bottom. And thats the reason why greenland is actually way smaller in real life, and countries near the equator are way bigger. #shortsvideo #shorts #shortsviral #country #maps #googlemaps

[wichgeo]

Here you can test how big countries are compared to others: www.thetruesize.com

[bernardthy]

Ok i gonna say something thats not the reason for the video but why was the first map german