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Topic	The actual sizes of the world's countries.
HylianFox 02/14/22 4:27:17 PM #4:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection As a side effect, the Mercator projection inflates the size of objects away from the equator. This inflation is very small near the equator but accelerates with increasing latitude to become infinite at the poles. As a result, landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctica appear far larger than they actually are relative to landmasses near the equator, such as Central Africa. --- THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Do not write in this space. <cite>HylianFox posted [p:962649710] in The actual... [t:79899158]...</cite> <quote>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection <quote>As a side effect, the Mercator projection inflates the size of objects away from the equator. This inflation is very small near the equator but accelerates with increasing latitude to become infinite at the poles. As a result, landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctica appear far larger than they actually are relative to landmasses near the equator, such as Central Africa.</quote> --- THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Do not write in this space.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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