wuphysics87 comments on The world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projection

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[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I like the one what looks like a pealed orange personally

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

It always blows my mind that the US and China are the exact same size. +/- ~15000km^2^
(i.e. Northern Ireland + China == US)

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 child)

Right? Close enough that it changes depending on territorial water claims and disputes.

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Heh

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