{"id":14450,"date":"2023-10-11T21:21:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T21:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=14450"},"modified":"2023-10-11T21:21:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T21:21:29","slug":"maps-the-size-of-countries-in-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/10\/11\/maps-the-size-of-countries-in-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps: The size of countries, in reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the map most of us have seen, or the next one after this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/6IMi8hT-world-map-wallpapers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14452\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/6IMi8hT-world-map-wallpapers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/6IMi8hT-world-map-wallpapers.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/6IMi8hT-world-map-wallpapers-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/6IMi8hT-world-map-wallpapers-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/6IMi8hT-world-map-wallpapers-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/6IMi8hT-world-map-wallpapers-432x270.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wallpapercave.com\/w\/6IMi8hT\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some times this map is centered on the United States, like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/blank-world-map-mercator-projection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14453\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/blank-world-map-mercator-projection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"827\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/blank-world-map-mercator-projection.jpg 827w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/blank-world-map-mercator-projection-600x386.jpg 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/blank-world-map-mercator-projection-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/blank-world-map-mercator-projection-420x270.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viralcovert.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both of the above maps, however, are very misleading due to how the project real land masses wrapped over a sphere (the earth) onto a flat map perspective. In some ways, these map projections have been used as a propaganda tool &#8211; particularly to make Russia (formerly USSR) look larger and more menacing.<\/p>\n<p>When the map is drawn so that each country has a representation of its true size, look at what happens:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amazingmap\/status\/1711828108351815816?s=20\">Amazing Maps on X: &#8220;Real size of countries https:\/\/t.co\/QJrhn4by93&#8221; \/ X (twitter.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/F8GiOvoWAAAQ2sr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14451\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/F8GiOvoWAAAQ2sr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/F8GiOvoWAAAQ2sr.jpg 680w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/F8GiOvoWAAAQ2sr-600x466.jpg 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/F8GiOvoWAAAQ2sr-348x270.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right away, you notice that Greenland and Russia are much smaller than portrayed in most maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maps can be very misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[352,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misinformation","category-propaganda-methods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}