Earth map in real scale. Our maps are wrong: what the world really looks like. What's wrong with the Mercator map

Many people know that the geographical map of the world familiar to us does not correctly reflect the real ratio of the areas of countries, and even more so of seas and oceans. Using the Mercator projection leads to many distortions, when, for example, Greenland looks larger than Australia... A fundamentally new projection proposed by Japanese designers made it possible to build the most accurate map of the world that mankind has ever seen.

How did they do it?

The traditional map of the world is built in the old way, in which the image from the surface of the globe is transferred to a flat map using the Mercator projection. As a result, we get on the map Greenland several times larger than Australia, while in fact Greenland is three times smaller ...

But a map built according to the principles of the AuthaGraph projection can be called truly innovative! Here, the proportions of land and water remain unchanged and correspond to what we see on the globe. AuthaGraph received the prestigious Japanese Good Design Award for this development.

Then comes original process transferring the image to the plane by combining various ways projections through intermediate objects. This "layered display" reduces the number of errors and monstrous distortions that occur when the surface of the globe is traditionally unfolded into a flat map.

Of course, it is impossible to achieve complete perfection, but the map from AuthaGraph is as close as possible to it.

How do the authors of the new world map explain the need for its appearance?
"Antarctica was discovered in 1820, and the first person reached the North Pole in 1909. In the 20th century, relations between East and West and North-South problems came to the fore in world politics. The main territorial interest was the land, which was the habitat of man. But since the end of the twentieth century, dwindling resources and problems environment forced to pay attention to the polar regions and the territory of the oceans ...
The AuthaGraphic world map aims to support this new perspective and show what ours really looks like. Earth and the interests of various countries and groups are distributed on it.

According to its creators, new map of the world will allow you to look at the planet and its individual corners from a new angle and get rid of ingrained stereotypes like "Western world", "Far East", "go north".

For comparison: a world map drawn in 1844

1490s world map used by Columbus to persuade Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile to support his expedition.

The map of the world that we have been accustomed to since childhood and which we use almost daily in Google Maps, is not entirely correct. Russia on it is gigantic; Greenland is larger than South America; the equator is not located in the middle, and the continents are elongated at the poles. This is a conformal Mercator projection.

The projection was invented in the Middle Ages by Gerard Mercator (1512-1594), a Belgian geographer and cartographer, to represent the round Earth on a two-dimensional plane for the needs of navigation. It preserves the angles between directions (whatever that means), but distorts the size of the continents.

After 500 years, two smart guys made the map interactive, opening people's eyes to the real wonderful world. It turned out to be a cooler toy than Pockemon Go, where you can rearrange countries in places and compare. The author of the article left to play at 12, returned only at five in the evening ...

While Hillary Clinton accuses Russian hackers of hacking the mail of the US Democratic Party, let's compare Russia and America. Russia more.

But only one and a half times ...

Two Europes and two Australias, South America, Africa and Asia almost entirely could fit on the territory of Russia… Why does Russia look smaller when “moving”? This is the Mercator projection. By moving countries, you can compare them, but we must not forget that this is just a game of the imagination. In other words, Russia would be of this size if it were in the place of Africa, Australia, and so on ...

Australia looks tiny on the map - somewhere on the outskirts of the world. But it is the size of America.

More than Europe and only slightly inferior to China.

USA, Australia and India are placed in Africa. By the way, on interactive map You can not only move countries, but also rotate them 360 degrees. Very comfortably.

What is Greenland? I used to think that this is a huge icy continent, which for some reason is called an island.

Approximately from the European part of Russia ...

But this is the real Greenland! In terms of area - like the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the Mercator projection, the land area is stretched at the North and south poles and, conversely, narrows slightly at the equator.

By the way, about the poles. Antarctica doesn't even fit on the map. It is impossible to depict the poles on it - it is flat.

But what happens if you put it in the Atlantic Ocean? We found Atlantis!

Let's move it to Russia and Antarctica again leaves the edges, stretching to infinity. This is how the Ice Continent would look like in the place of the Russian Federation.

The largest countries in Africa...

Imagine Africa is trying to take over the world. It looks like M&M's peas scattered on the table.

America is taking over the world...

Russia... I just moved them to the North Pole area.

Put the US in the Mediterranean and you get the Roman Empire. This is how she used to be. Another interesting nuance: American cities in terms of climate will exactly coincide with European ones. After all, the weather in Chicago is about the same as in Bulgaria, Florida is similar to Egypt, and California is easy to confuse with Spain ...

On the contrary: six large European countries (Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania) in the United States. Conclusion: Europe can move entirely to America. And there will still be room.

Another former empire is the British. A small island country managed to leave a legacy around the world.

I read somewhere that 78 Italy will fit on the territory of Russia. I checked: 23 fit. But this is because Italy has become larger.

Japan is shaped like Baikal.

There are only four places in the world where you can admire geysers: Iceland, Kamchatka, New Zealand and Yellowstone National Park in the USA. Here's what happens if you put Iceland in each of them... It's tiny.

"Moscow region" in Spain.

The tiny island could be lost somewhere in the Mediterranean. And no one would notice.

Or in the Gulf of Mexico...

Madagascar fits perfectly in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

And Jamaica - in White ... But they would not like it.

Have you heard about New Caledonia?

Nothing surprising...

Finally the top ten big countries at the equator - this is the best way to compare their sizes. Russia, Canada, China, USA, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Algeria. What is Algeria doing in the top ten? And so I was surprised...

Many are aware that the map of the world familiar to us does not reflect the real ratio of the areas of countries, and even more so of seas and oceans, not too correctly. The use of the Mercator projection leads to many distortions, when, for example, Greenland looks larger than Australia ... A fundamentally new projection proposed by Japanese designers made it possible to build the most accurate map of the world that mankind has ever seen.

How did they do it?

The traditional map of the world is built in the old way, in which the image from the surface of the globe is transferred to a flat map using the Mercator projection. As a result, we get on the map Greenland several times larger than Australia, while in fact Greenland is three times smaller ...

But a map built according to the principles of the AuthaGraph projection can be called truly innovative! Here, the proportions of land and water remain unchanged and correspond to what we see on the globe. For this development, AuthaGraph received the prestigious Japanese Good Design Award.

Then comes the original process of transferring the image to the plane by combining various methods of projection through intermediate objects. This "multi-layer display" reduces the number of errors and monstrous distortions that occur when the surface of the globe is traditionally unfolded into a flat map.

Of course, it is impossible to achieve complete perfection, but the map from AuthaGraph is as close as possible to it.

“Antarctica was discovered in 1820 and the first man reached the North Pole in 1909. In the 20th century, relations between East and West and North-South problems came to the fore in world politics. The main territorial interest was the land, which was the habitat of man. But since the end of the 20th century, dwindling resources and environmental problems have forced attention to the polar regions and the territory of the oceans ...

Hello dear reader! In this article, we will continue the theme of a flat earth and present one more fact proving the correctness of this theory. Do not rush to spit at the monitor if you are a skeptic of this topic, but simply study the proposed material and check it yourself.

Of course, it is not given to a larger number of the population to check what the map of the world in which we live should actually be. But a curious mind always wants to believe that our world is not the way we used to see it. And not only people live on this big earth.

But sooner or later we will figure out all this confusion!))

Map of the World: False or Real?

So, on our agenda. This is how it is presented to us from childhood:

Everything is simple. We find a map of the world of flat earth on the Internet:

What do you see? Doesn't this ratio of continents remind you of the sizes that Yandex showed us? Coincidence or accident?

But that's not all...

Comparison

Here official emblem UN:

Do you notice anything?

• Firstly, it has just all the continents in relation to each other of the size that the Yandex ruler shows us;
• Secondly, it is very similar to a flat earth map. Don't find?

Question to skeptics - How so?)

Is this a coincidence or have we really been pushed the wrong way since childhood? And most importantly, why are they doing it? And why is Russia artificially enlarged, as if they wanted to scare someone with their mass)) Or cover it up? After all, against the background of huge Russia, Australia is lost visually. Maybe they are hiding something on its territory? And they want people to look anywhere but at tiny Australia? Hmm... One can only guess...

Call to action

Unfortunately, we cannot rise into space, but we have the Internet, brains and eyes. Close all textbooks, we don't know where is the truth in them and where is the lie. Become pioneers without looking back at history.

Start doing practical experiments. For example, get into a car and drive yourself a long distance from one city to another and compare it with the official map on Yandex.

Let's look for inconsistencies in our strange world together.

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Have you ever thought about what real sizes of countries different from those shown in geographical maps? In principle, for a Soviet student, such would not be of any interest, since all students knew about them, even with average academic performance.

However, in our time, the data presented in the article may shock some representatives of the new generation of young people.

So, the real sizes of countries and continents differ from what we see on the maps. For example, looking at a map, you might think that Russia is significantly larger than the continent in size. In fact, Africa (≈ 30 million km²) is almost twice the size of Russia (≈ 17 million km²).

Why does it depend? Maybe someone deliberately wants to misinform us? No, friends. It's all about projection.

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