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Why does Russia look bigger than Africa on a map?
25/11/195 comments
The knowledge of the majority of people about the relative sizes of countries is probably based on maps than statistics. The Mercator projection, the most popular world map, distorts the size of the shape of landmasses near the pole. This results in Russia looking bigger than Africa.