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World map with countries real sizes (i.redd.it)
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[–] Waphles@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which protection did you grow up with?

[–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

this one

probably this one

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

While maybe not exactly a Mercator projection, it has the same issue of northern countries' geography being enlarged compared to countries closer to the equator. For example, Russia still looks way to big in this projection too