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Not true. This is a screenshot taken from https://thetruesize.com/, which addresses the issue you mention. You can see, for example, that the yellow outline of poland is larger than the cyan one nearer the equator.
Here's one I did myself to better illustrate that effect:
The Pacific ocean has a surface area of approximately 165 million square kilometres, and poland is about 300,000 square kilometres, so on that basis, you should be able to squeeze around 550 polands into the Pacific, though poorly fitting edges would obviously reduce that, but suffice to say, 16 is well undercounted, and the image accurately portrays that
No, it clearly says you can fit 16 poland in the Pacific, not more
You can fit 16 polands into that area. OP doesn't make any claim that you can only fit 16.
Yeah but we only have 16 Poland in stock
Well at least there are a few backups in case Poland should ever need restoring.
They learned to keep those backups after the first couple of times.
I have some polish as well but they're not quite the real thing
I know that the ocean is big enough, but OP uses a Mercator projection and pastes the same size Poland all over the map
You have used correctly resized maps, they didn't
I really don't understand why you're doubling down here, when faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The map I used and the one originally posted are both from the same website, and when overlaid, the two maps match pixel for pixel. There is no difference in projection or distortion between them. The outlines of Poland are very clearly not the same size all over the map.