▲ 522 ▼ Trump: ‘I’m really not trolling’ with talk of Canada as 51st state (thehill.com) submitted 1 year ago by CowsLookLikeMaps@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world 216 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children) I do unironically believe the Mercator projection has influenced how much he talks about Greenland. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] kandoh@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago In school I remember them teaching us that it had a psychological effect that we think Northern countries are more important than Southern ones because they're bigger and on top and I am totally 100% on board with that line of thought permalink fedilink source parent [–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago You're not wrong. It looks so much bigger than the 2.1m sq km that it is. In fact, it's 100k smaller than the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When you look at a Mercator map, Greenland looks comparable to the entire continent of Africa. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago In school I remember them teaching us that it had a psychological effect that we think Northern countries are more important than Southern ones because they're bigger and on top and I am totally 100% on board with that line of thought permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago You're not wrong. It looks so much bigger than the 2.1m sq km that it is. In fact, it's 100k smaller than the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When you look at a Mercator map, Greenland looks comparable to the entire continent of Africa. permalink fedilink source parent