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The world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projection (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 16 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Because Canada is ~10% smaller than the US.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago* (9 children)

    Canada is slightly larger than the US in total area. The US is a tiny bit larger when you just count land-area.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (8 children)

    Well yes, Canada is larger if you count the ocean as part of Canada lmao

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  • [–] -2 points 3 days ago* (4 children)

    Canada total area: 9,984,670 km^2

    USA total area: 9,866,624 km^2

    Have a look a the respective 2nd digits of those numbers and consider that 9 is indeed bigger than 8.

    Source: Wikipedia.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Total land area: 9,093,507

    You are counting ocean as part of Canada, a thing not represented on maps.

    Imagine being this condescending and wrong.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Smaller in area?

    According to wikipedia, these are the total areas of both countries:

    USA: 9,833,520 km2 Canada: 9,984,670 km2

    I am certain I am just misunderstanding the system behind this new projection but reading it is supposed to display accurate area, it seems Canada should show up bigger.

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