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Today, the United Nations voted to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes (europe.pub)
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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/world/un-vote-new-world-map-intl-scli

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I feel like these projections make Antartica looks significantly larger than it reality. Is this thought correct?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    I mean, do not underestimate the size of Antarctica. It has the area of about two Australias (14.2 vs. 7.6 Mio. km²), and it's only somewhat smaller than South America (17.8 Mio. km²).
    It does always look a bit larger as well, though, simply because it is unrolled at the bottom there.

    (We're not gonna talk about Mercator, where it does look comically big...)

    For the proper size, you'll have to look at a globe.
    Wikipedia has little preview globes:

    This webpage is also not too terrible for a 3D globe: https://www.webglearth.com/

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