How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think
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- čas přidán 11. 08. 2016
- All of us have seen a world map at some point in our lives before, but it is very difficult to imagine how certain countries and parts of the world compare to each other in size that are far apart. In this video, I explore why the world looks very different than how it is portrayed in the Mercator Projection map. I then go on to explore how certain countries are unexpectedly larger or smaller than what they appear to be, and how some places looks wildly different than our perceptions.
PS; Don't totally hate on the Mercator Projection, it's actually a really useful map for navigation and on keeping the correct shape of countries while sacrificing the size that we can all laugh about!
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If you put antartica in africa it will melt
if u put Africa in Antarctica it will freeze
lol fuck thats a good one
MINDBLOWING!!!!!!
Antarctica does not exist
The Earth is flat!
And if you put Antarctica in a world of global warming deniers you get idiots and a melted Antarctica.
I didn't know russia actually could fit in my phone's screen
Nice!
BER IS 😂😂😂👍
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@@beris7361
@@beris7361 Так нет , я просто посмеялся. Так то , хули он Россию с маленькой пишет...
@@beris7361 Кажется, что-то сломалось. И это ваша национальная гордость.
What’s fascinating to me is to see how close some parts of the world are to one another when you take into account the spherical shape of the earth. On a map, Russia always seems like it’s so far away from the US, but from the perspective of the North Pole, Russia is strikingly close to Greenland and Canada.
The closest distance between Russia and the US is the Bering strait. It‘s 53 mls. That‘s mainland. In the middle of the strait are the Diomede islands. One is Russian, the other one is US. The distance is less than 5 mls.
During the Cold War, all the bombers and missiles for both countries were stationed in the north, because that was going to be the route of attack if the Cold War became hot.
Even Sarah Palin knows this, come on.
@@control_the_pet_population - Bombers and missiles aren't stationed. Personnel are stationed.
@@samuelluria4744 congrats on the semantic wankery... there is one in every comment section.
I noticed the map was much less accurate than I thought when I first flew from South America to Europe, passing through Africa takes way more time than the map suggests.
The flight plans of intercontinental travel are never straight lines.
I remember my flight from Dubai to Durban. I ate, read, worked and slept twice. That's when I realized that Africa is humongous.
The fact that The Sahara is as big as the Us is mind blowing
Yh
fact
No it's not
Fun Fact : Sahara Desert has almost the same size as USA but smaller than USA like 500,000 square kilometers.
@@ZyGotham38 omg wtf
“Alaska isn’t that large”
*Takes up 1/3 of the US*
Vanz :O braaaah
XD
Vanz Alaska is bigger then about 100 countries XD
@@Lamster66 it's a state, just up by Canada
@@Lamster66 didn't you ask if it was part of the u.s? in that case, yes that was my assumption.
I’m pretty chuffed about this. I always believed I lived in a small three bed mid terrace house, and suddenly see that I could be living in a much grander detached 10 bedroom mansion with swimming pool ! 😃
100 sq. KM pool
In reality, Africa is a huge continent, but they show it as smaller. Thanks for this video that shows this fact that few people realize looking at the map.
Once i had read that the Moon is just the same size like Africa, so the Moon isnt that large everybody thinks
Afrika'nın küçük gösterilmesinin en büyük nedeni ırkçılık. Ve buna bağlı olarak üstünlük kompleksidir
No? In reality, Africa is a huge continent, but they show every other continent as bigger.
You roasted Wyoming hard
Wyoming roasts itself harder.
You know what else is roasting? Arizona.
Y'now, Cus it's hot there.
Nah its not real it is just a chunk error
Good
@@tygonmaster me: laughs in South Asian
*Africa becomes one country*
Russia: Now this is an avengers level threat
No its a rusvenger threat level
@@vicant_deadangelsnight2168 L
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Vicant_dead angel's Nightcore AfroEuroAsia: *Impossible*
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I've always loved maps. This is very well put together and I loved the size comparisons you make. Truly gives a great glimpse of the different misconceptions about country sizes. Thanks!
Maps are the best
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Yes maps are a really great thing
I love maps too always have
I did study geography in college, and have been a geo geek since. And the one thing one of my instructors insisted we learn was how distorted the Mercator projection is.
It's purpose originally for navigation route plotting.
But one thing I learned is that of all the equal area map projections that I know of, the one that distorts the LEAST is the Goode's broken homolosine. There c are some equal area maps that distort the Shapes of the continents so badly they're neatly unrecognizable.
When Russia is way smaller than on a map but Russia is still bigger than Pluto
is it actually? Because if so, that’s crazy!!
Hahahahs
It actually isn't, but there is no doubt that Russia is huge. Pluto has an area of 17,646,012 square kilometers, making Pluto larger than Russia
@@Quincius Yeah, turns out they found out that Pluto is a little larger than Russia.
*Soviet Union reunites to be larger than Pluto again*
@@Quincius no,Pluto is 16.650.000 km²
In my opinion a really intresting geography fact is that Chile reaches all the way from Libya up to Norway.
How so? Chile is a south american country while Norway and Libya are in Europe and North Africa
William Isom I know but if you put it in europe
@@eskder6388 Oh, I understand now, sorry I just got a bit confused
William Isom it’s ok!👌
I find it crazy that Chile can stretch from Saturn to the andromeda galaxy
As a Canadian, I can say Mercator projections are my favourite ones! I was shocked to go to Jamaica and Panama when I realized how much bigger they were than I had expected.
The one that surprised me that I learned recently - the distance between New Zealand and Australia. I always thought of NZ as an island off the cost of Australia, but the distance between them is about the same as the distance between New York and Los Angeles.
No it's not that big. Distance between Australia and new Zealand is around 1600km whereas distance between LA and New York is around 4000km
@@aryanjadawala4835 Ok, just googled it, and you're right. Apparently, the result that usually shows up when you google the distance between Australia and New Zealand measures between the centers of the two countries, which is a completely useless piece of information.
Just to get the heckles up from our Kiwi neighbors, it is to close.😁
@@rbbecker73 stop making fake news dawg
@@stevep2430 - Just to get the heckles up from our thankfully distant penal descended cousins who don't do the English - *too close.
UK is the best example of "Size doesn't matter"
It's all relative though. UK stretches from the French coast up to above Bergen on the west coast of Norway. That's pretty mind boggling in a way
@@leob4403 bergen
@@leob4403 bergeN
@@sparkz1099 what's this some meme that I missed
@@leob4403 Bergen
Alaska is not that big “moves Alaska to Europe” bigger than most Central Europe
Ja now go back to ya reich
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British Empire why u nazi
He was using the map size, not the real size
Monarchist Commander ik That he was it’s a joke
I never liked how the Mercator projection was used so commonly as a classroom kind of map, it was created for air travel so they could have straight lines on the map. There are other projections that don’t distort as much I think would work better.
Mercator long predates aircraft. It's more practical for navigation of any sort, which is what maps are actually used and created for. But for teaching geography, globes should be used. In a classroom environment, there's no reason not to.
The fact the UK, and particularly England, is so small shows you just how much it punched above its weight when building its empire.
Respect.
Indeed. It all started when they ran out of trees to use as fuel and building material. On a side note, after the New World was 'discovered' the first thing they wrecked for profit was (in their minds) the endless, inexhaustible forest around settlements and the frontier, shipping countless logs back to Europe. Many accounts claim how awestruck the sight of all the trees were from the sea, compared to their depleted, long gone woodlands back home.
Totally. Still can.
Through imperialism and colonialist policies. Rape pillage and torture
The main countries that ruled the seas are all relatively small ... The Netherlands are tiny, but had a trading Empire to rival the rest
@@carlsaganlives6086 i once heard that britain used canadian and or new england white pines as ship masts. Those trees must've been huge.
Britain: I used to rule the world
The Spanish: I used to rule the whole america....
France: am i a joke to you?
@@Lamster66 lol
The replies sum up england year 8 history
@@jemr3 🐢
As someone who lives in texas, it takes about 11 hours to get to the other side of texas.
Yea if you had family members on the other side of Russia I can see that being sort of a problem. It'd take a month to get across texas walking wise so Russia is definitely x4 that.
No it doesn't. I crossed Texas in under an hour. Granted, I was on an airplane.
@@jasonmcdaniel345 yea I meant driving, going anywhere on an airplane will probably take under an or an hour lol, texas can't beat that.
bruh it takes 13 hours to go to canada from dubai
Thats cute start 1/4 way up the coast of western australia drive for 15hrs and you got half the way up big long boring drive
Brings in to light just how tightly packed in we are here in the UK. Considering we're an island smaller than Madagascar we have a population more than twice of them.
28 million for Madagascar and 67 million for the UK.
Or perhaps even more mind blowing the UK is 41 times smaller than Canada and 32 times smaller than Australia but has a bigger population than the two countries combined.
25 million for Australia and 32 million for Canada, together make 63 million still 4 million fewer than the UK.
Not good for UK
@@kalibiznes The UK is falling apart at the seams. I'm honestly certain that before the end of the decade there won't be a UK any more.
Canada has over 38 million people. Your point is still valid though. 👍🏻
true, but consider this: Canada has so much freshwater on its surface, if you count only dry land, USA and China are actually a fair bit bigger than Canada. 80 percent of our population hugs the USA border. Our interior is very rugged and virtually uninhabitable. Though still a lot smaller, UK has pretty flat, liveable terrain, so at least ya make the most of it :p australia same deal, they almost all live in 3 cities.
That is not really fair as 95% of australias population live on 5% of its area along the coast. Canada is massive but it is mostly covered in forests, mountains and uninhabitable tundra.
Truly fascinating. I enjoyed the comparisons, and was surprised by many, especially Japan when by the East Coast of the US. I think most surprising to me is how many countries fit in Africa.
Russia bro
km^2:
Russia 17,075,200
Canada 9,984,670
United States of America 9,826,630
China 9,596,960
landmass doesn't say everything, large parts of russia is uninhabited, antarctica has a great landmass, but no population, except perhaps people on bases or so, but they are foreign
You are prohibited from listing world countries' populations without mentioning China.
yeah, the 1,383,127,117 at this moment is quite large
but this might not be all good, because they might have an elderly problem within 30-40 years or so, seeing the largest growth was in the past and is now slowing down a little, other developed nations will face the same problem even sooner, this is a consequence of prosperity and progress
Yeah, the video isn't entirely accurate. You would have to readjust the entire landmass you're compairing according to how it stretches away from and to the equator in addition to doing the same for the other to get a better picture of size. But that would've required a lot more effort, of course.
yeah, he could have shown some other maps where the curvature is better 'mimiqued'
Basically the closer to the poles a country is, the more distorted its size becomes.
Only in Mercator maps
@HongKongAndMacauBalls That are not a sphere I guess
@HongKongAndMacauBalls Projections of a place on a plane?
That is only in the Mercator map and not so don’t even
4:59 Man is warmest place to hide.
I like how once the colors are on a country, you can see the cities and the names
I have watch a couple of your videos everyday. Love that you keep your personal opinion out and it is fact base.
The graphics, animation and editing, etc are excellent.
Love this shit!
Brazil was shocking, but the UK and France and the rest of Europe being sooo tiny was just incredible.
Satellite Feed More than half of Brazil is amazon rainforest ( I would say 60% ) so... That's why nobody lives in the interior down there but near the coast or in the southernmost part of the country.
köln actually not,60% of the rainforest is In Brazil,but it covers way less of the Brazilian territory
Satellite Feed I know I love living in a cute tiny country
I thought Australia being larger than I thought was incredible
And yet, just think about that Europeans petty much made colonies around the world
Flat-earthers: We have members around the globe.
Everyone else: Say that again SLOWLY.
I dont get it
Domi igli here I’ll explain it to ya
Flat-earthers: we have members all over the *”globe”*
They say “all around the *globe*” but for them isn’t the earth flat? Get it now?
@@jamesvera_28 thanks now i get it and its actually really funny😂😂
👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻
It's "we have members all AROUND the globe".
You are a great channel,your language is so smooth to understand and have really a logic that's why I subscribed you to avoid watching crazy infografic show..
That was pretty slick how you fit those countries so well as states in the usa. You must be crazy good at puzzles
I started cycling a few years ago and now often do 50-100 mile rides on country roads. My point here is that you don't even realize how big the area is around where you live until you get out and explore it at speeds less than the cars we drive today. It's so small when compared to a world map, but even the smallest of areas is really massive.
The areas are not that massive. The fact is, humans are just severely limited physically.
@@doctormorbius6430 Well, big and small are only relative, and since we are human, it makes perfect sense to judge things by human standards and capabilities. Not that we should do that always, just that it's perfectly valid.
Totally agree. The county I live in is 15,000 square miles and only 35,000 people. There are more dairy cows than people.
Earth big. Human small.
I have a gas powered scooter that I've been riding around my around my town and throughout the back roads and it really does give you a whole other perspective. So many beautiful little areas that you wouldn't know existed unless you saw it from the eyes of a scooter or a bicycle
On the map Greenland looks about the same size as Africa but actually Africa is 14 times bigger than Greenland
Yup, that's right
Well Greenland is almost as big as Saudi Arabia lol
But still its kinda mindblowing an island is 16 times smaller then one of worlds 7 continents
14*
@@imadog6337 how is that mind blowing?
Oh, you mean it's so big that only 16 of those islands can cover Africa.
Fantastic representation! I knew this all to be true but to see it presented this way is awesome!
Love this! Thanks for doing all the hard work.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
The comparison putting Japan on the east coast of the US was the most surprising to me.
Yeah, it always looks tiny next to China.
Same! I had no idea it was almost the size of the east coast! Makes the population there make a little more sense now
I wasn’t surprised
@@frankmarano1118 Well actually most of Japan is mountainous and inhabitable, so it's still a relatively compact country.
Mine was sweden and madagaskar !
Me sees russia in globe:
Reality is often disappointing...
Im not believing any of this, he sounds like he made all of this up
Да конечно😂😂😂
Ты просто смотришь слишком много пропаганды...
Не надо верить всему, что показано по телевизору.
Только если живёшь в Россие.
В этом случае строго рекомендую!😬
@@rostislavplyusnin5690 Привет
Rostislav Plyusnin what
@@rostislavplyusnin5690 отличный совет как стать идиотом за 15 минут
When you said that the DRC was a colony of Belgium and you compared the two countries, I realized that during the time when Belgian Congo exits, Belgium probably might be bigger at that time too. (Idk i just noticed)
Was hoping youd do the work for us and resize it all accurately, in one final image, lol.
why does this have so many dislikes?
Isaac Garitee cuz earth is flat
no.... it's not....
It must be hard being that fucking stupid
the Americans can accept their size
Hallison Michel is one of those people who say Americans are rude while they always start shit with us.
This is what a lot of Europeans don't understand, and why they wonder why we're not more culturally diverse here in the United States. They can drive 6 hours and cross the borders of two different countries. We can drive for 7-8 hours and still be in the same damn state.
In Canada we can drive for 20 - 25 hours and still be in the same province.
+scruffy farmdog The biggest province in Canada is Quebec and you can cross it in 15-16 hours from west to east you idiot, and don't tell me from south to north there aren't any roads doing south to north
Olivier Savard From the southeast corner of BC to the Northwest corner is 23-27 hours driving.
This is good info fellas, but I was talking about the US, obviously. Canada's Provinces are much different geographically compared to our States. I've edited my original statement to reflect that.
I live in the Netherlands near the border of Belgium.
And it takes about 2 / 3 hours too get to the top of the Netherlands.
Well, our country is verry small.
Ty this is awesome..i knew the map sizes werent right.
Thank you for your work
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THOSE INSIGHTS IT'S FASCINATING
A teacher once asked me "What is farther from USA, the moon or Australia ?"
I replied "Australia"
She asked me again angrily "Are you dumb, how on Earth is Australia farther than the god damn Moon!!?"
I replied "Because i can see the Moon from USA, but i can't see Australia :)"
Teacher shocked
I rocked
I actually LOL nice one dude.
+scruffy “scruff” farmdog I like turtles
What?
What kind of teacher would ask such stupid questions
i was 10 when i first heard that story. You are a little liar : *
I noticed that when i lived in brazil i would fly for hours and barely move on the map and then I moved to europe and i would move a large distance on the map in not much time.
You get the same effect when you use the google map, it takes a lot longer to zoom in the south
that's just geography my dude
This would be more evident if you compared traveling in Russia, Scandinavian countries, Greenland or Canada to Brazil.
I feel the same living in Texas and have to drive to a different city. It can take 10-15 hours and you're still on Texas!
I know the feeling
This stuff blows my mind too...
You realise that there are still unexplored places on the Earth, ie parts of the African Congo and South American Amazon (and more!), parts of Siberia/Russia/China/Mongolia, also Antarctica too...
Extremely remote places, extremely difficult to get to!
Great find, thanks for sharing
“As we can hopefully agree upon, the earth is a sphere.”
Flat earthers: No
flat earthers: and i took that personally
Thank you!!! ✌👍😄
Flat earthers live in a flat universe. 👎
@@davidhunt7249 no they only think earth is flat
Earth is the shape of a torus
the universe is actually flat a least for a few deacades and our older telescope prove it is flat
The fact about how huge is Brazil shocked me!
Inside Brazil, we have 26 states, with diferent accents of our language, the portuguese. And the most important: not every brazilian live in the amazon forest, located on the north, maybe only 5 million of the total 200 million citizens. Come and visit us!
Marcelo Langame yeah come visit us
If I get the chance to, I would never say no :)
The world's 5th-largest country.
+Marcelo Langame is it true that everyone is a Neymar fan?
Thank you, I really enjoyed this!
Very informative. Thank you for sharing
I thought everything was bigger in Texas. But now I know everything's bigger in Africa.
Viki M shut your stupid mouth
except for food portions
AAAAAACID
We should conquer the rest of Africa and use it for cultivation. No use letting all that real estate go to waste.
algeria it the biggest Contry in Africa
The Mercator Projection wasn't made to be accurate with respect to size. It was made so that the angles between places were correct, so that back in the old days, sailors could actually go places. If you want size accuracy, use a Winkel-Tripel Projection or something
Exactly. The maps were used for sailing... I'll never forget some guest on Oprah in the 90s that claimed these maps distorted the size based on white supremacy, to make Europe seem more important and Africa less. No, you idiot. They adjusted the 2D map to be able to sail from one point to another without getting lost at sea, wide of the mark
@@pablopumarestaminiau7512 Also the 3rd world ice colonies Greenland and Antarctica actually look bigger than the master countries in Europe.
@@pablopumarestaminiau7512 this is still going on, never let fact get in the way of a good grievance.
@@pablopumarestaminiau7512
The equator is commonly placed at 2/3th instead of 1/2.
That part is fishy: moving the equator to its proper place makes africa and south-america look bigger and removes europe from the focal point of the picture.
But using straight meridians is a logical choice for maps used for navigation. There is no reason to think that particular idea had anything to do with racism.
@@pablopumarestaminiau7512 Certain people will make everything about race. Due to distortion scale, countries up north are more distorted because at the poles there is no end, it's just infinity. Africa is less distorted because its on the equator. Someone should have told that guest "yeah that's how Mercator's work". It is dated but I'm just tired of people sh*ting on Mercators even though it has uses.
This is why I have a couple of globes in the house to get an accurate picture in my mind. I discovered just today that Murmansk, Russia is only 2700 miles from Point Barrow, Alaska, straight across the Arctic Sea over the North Pole. Every classroom teaching this stuff should have a sizeable globe.
I think about this alot an always find it difficult to explain so cheers for that
In Soviet Russia, size distorts you
family guy!!lol
hahaha Yakov Smirnoff, nice.
+VakoBeatz that's only from Family Guy if you're under 25. Much older. sry
Is that why they think all americans are obese?
hahaha
Is it just me being European or is no one surprised by any of this?
We all saw this coming
This is a classic example of an American being scared and amazed when he saw a map for the first time.
LOL kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk I laugh so loud
wissam24 "omg so there ARE more countries than USA, Mexico, commieland, Canada and the ancient lost realm of Englandia?"
Ahahah I'm not surprised at all...I only thought Russia was bigger.
I use maps that have curvatures, not flat maps.
❤️ Very informative and interesting - thank you 🙏 ❤
It's true that my Switzerland is relatively small from a top down view, but if you ever see our Mountain landscape for yourself you realise how different this country is from others in "size" :)
Switzerland is so small that did you know we get more volume of snow in Australia than Switzerland? Yes Australia not Austria!
So for anyone who doesn't get it since the world is a sphere when you try to put it on something flat you have to compensate so countries that are in the middle of the map get squeezed and the ones on the top of the map get stretched so when you get a continent that's near the equator like Africa it appears small and when you get a country far from it like Russia it appears massive
Africa isn't a country.
Drums & Bass why do you bother?
Kenneth Odhiambo haha i hear ya!
because idiots who think africa is a country cant be allowed to keep on spouting shit. i hope the original poster isnt an adult cos is he/she is then i am lost for words.
Kenneth Odhiambo
Angelo Sandoval e
mapmakers: russia is small
also mapmakers: "reality can be what ever i want"
Also Russia: the biggest country in this freaking world.
Russia is not small it’s giant
@@pimpelpaars9098 what u mean giant, it huge
А мне пох вообще, главное, что я тут живу.
@@dijarkio2699 russia is the biggest country in the world
Loved this. Always knew the global map was distorted in terms of land masses. I just never knew how much! Thanks for summarizing this for us!
2D map is really bad for kids, I would ban that map from schools
0/10 No Toyota Corolla comparisons.
0/10 no banana for scale
Brötchen int brazil
Sweden is the size of Madagascar was really surprising to me
Vasily Morozov my dick is the size of russia im not suprised
Nice one!
@@haliltutoglu5419 haha go fuck urself
In school we learned that Sweden is roughly the same size as the state of California as well.
@@simonnorsten5043 No we didn't
That's bonkers 😲 thank you for this great video sir
There is a great episode of the TV drama "West Wing" where a group of cartographers inform members of the US President's top staff what the Earth's countries and continents actually look like and how their sizes compare to each other. The staff members were unaware that all maps are distorted in one way or another (sometimes VERY distorted) and that the placing of the Northern hemisphere at the top of maps was arbitrary.
I remember that one!
The u.k went from owning 1/3 of the world to living on an island the size of Michigan 🤣
BUT pay attention to a language you are talking in..
@@nursmalik6024 English is a mix of german and french , it did not belong to english people but to all europeans Latin and Germanic ones a good consensus !
Rachel Sombo when the Normans conquered Britain they changed the language significantly to what it is today without them it’d be entirely different
@@rachelsombo9045 wtf are you talking about english is a germanic language it has nothing to do with german it just has french influence but its not "mix" with german
Nurs Malik
Pay attention to the alphabet you are using. You're using the Roman alphabet, but do you think that matters for the Romans?
Well, if I've learned anything from this video it's that it's easier to just use a globe.
Globes are great. Maps are just good to remind you of your globe... and they fold flat.
@@jasonswiatkowski9127 they are also good for data (comparing countries)
3D phone apps rule everything else is losers pffff
Disneyland Mickey Mouse Snow Globes are the best!
@Lies Exposed spinning a globe by placing ones hand on Africa is racist and its causes famine and earthquakes there
It was very interesting thank you for making this video🤔❤❤
I always fascinated maps of the world since my childhoid for other reasons but yours is funny very important though thanks. ❤
In Brazil we use the other type of map that keeps our size big
haha
The Gall-Peters map?
mostly this one, that i don't know the name www.estadosecapitaisdobrasil.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/mapa-mundi.png
the main advantage of the map shown of the map shown on this video is navigation. you could draw a straight line and it gave you the direction to follow;
gavin kemp. With navigation you have to factor in your point of reference also. It's like Einstein's Theory of Relativity; it's only relevant with respect to the point of reference.
i always wondered why americans can drive from one state to another in few hours, that explains it
? It's near the equator so it is barely distorted...
yes but some states (Rhode Island, Delaware etc) are very small so it's possible to drive across some states reasonably quickly.
Technically you can drive all the way across America in 48 hours, but that would require constant driving.
Taz-on-the-loose Yusef becasue, common sense
takes me 2 days constant driving to get to my mums place here in australia,, and im not quite at the top and shes not quite at the bottom so maybe 3+ days top to bottom and across is about the same.
wow, didnt know this. thanks you for making this contentinho.
its like this because the north and south of earth is smaller with means if you put a country south or north it will be big but if you put in the ecuator it will be small
3:47 is when I questioned all of reality
The reality is that Africa is Massive. Remove Russia off Asia's land mass and it's actually biggest than Asia.
imagine if the soviets realized that their empire was smaller than Africa
they may have collapsed faster
@@maddogbasil are you serious? AFRICA NOT MORE THAN RUSSIA.
Tylar shut up fool. Get educated
Same thats when i got really confused
India: In Larger than UK
UK: I Might be Small, but, When it comes to Imperialism, I'm Ruthless
Yup ask Canada , Australia and USA they know it
Easy to be ruthless when you have firearms against spears, arrows, axes
UK army actually kinda sucks because they have a low budget including in WWII
@@AmericanIdiot7659 Oh Right, From what I remember, they plan to scrap their Tanks, the Irony is that they proved the Tanks to be effective in battle. . . That's what happens if you build expensive tanks with s**t economy
@@RedditzGG India: its not 19th century bro...
new knowledge! Never thought of that before
The map at the beginning of the video is a Mercator projection. It results in the northern continents looking larger than the middle and the southern. The psychological effects of it make one think, however subconsciously, that the northern land mass, and the peoples who inhabit them, are superior to the middle and southern. That, in turn, has a significant effect on a country's development.
It'd not that deep
Teacher: so where did everyone went to this summer
The super rich kid: 2:15
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Do you know:
*Russia is bigger than Pluto.*
Yes
@That_ Dude Yes. Russia's surface area is 400000km2 larger
Conspiracy and lies.
Holy hell
Geoff Miller we have pictures of both Russia and Pluto and it is indeed bigger
Excellent vid, new sub!
Very interesting. Thank you!
I am actually shocked at the amount of people that did not get the point of the video. I am very sorry RealLifeLore that they are being as rude as they are. The point of the video was to show the distortion that this 2 dimensional map of a 3 dimensional object has, and its effects on perceived size of countries/continents vs their actual size. Russia is made to look much smaller because he takes it from the north, where the distortion in size is at its worst, to the equator, where there is much less distortion. You can't, however, take the size he makes it and place it anywhere else and say "The Russia he made is smaller than the Russia on the map!" and expect to be taken seriously. If you move it anywhere else, you have to account for the distortion. That is basically what he does to everything, and it is correct. What he says in completely correct, and accurate.
Deryn Keyem I would take you more seriously if you weren't 13
Matthew White yeah hes probably 13 so what, hes still smarter than you. stfu
Matthew White of
If you're interested, the reason the earth cannot be "faithfully" portrayed on a plane is due to its Gaussian curvature. A 3-dimensional object can most certainly be portrayed with an isometric mapping depending on the object in question. One of the easiest examples which shows this is the cylinder, which has the obvious mapping of cutting through it vertically and unfurling it into a plane. That would properly preserve all notions of distance and angles. This will hold true to all objects of which has Gaussian curvature of 0. That is to say, all those whose metrics are similar can be faithfully mapped to one another. For a good visual example of this, Numberphile has a video on hyperbolic geometry "Too Many Triangles" which is a very accurate depiction of exactly why this curvature matters for projection, since all of this is a question of how angles are measured on the surface in question.
Bamboo Latte I just realized I read the comment wrong
So did people skip 6th grade geography class on the day map projections were taught?
you seem to forget that not all people got to the same fucking school as you
Yeah, but this is primary school stuff, come on...
I remember having to make a globe of the earth from a paper cut out. We were give a printed map with vertical slices in the map missing that, when cut out and put together, would make the globe with a round shape. The teacher explained that this was the reason the earth could never actually be shown on a flat map without pieces cut out. I think I was in grade 3 and I am from Africa. I understood this concept completely. Your American school systems have a lot to answer for.
you probably just forgot
As an older American, I also learned this in school. And you are right, our school system was good at some point... but it is now a mess. The number of countries right now with a superior school system is in the double digits, and that is quite sad.
I tried to like this video twice. Really good
Thank you for that Video👍🏻
let's be honest. The only type of map we should be using is globes.
srankin1222 yeah but it's hard to carry globes everywhere
srankin1222 Google Earth on smartphones maybe?
only if ur an idiot that cant understand maps
Make the flat earthers cry.
srankin1222 you can't put a globe on paper
It would have been nice to actually explain WHY the Mercator projection is "wrong", why and where it was used, and which are the alternatives.
The Mercator projection is explained by making a glass earth, painting on the land then putting a lightbulb in the centre. If you now put a cylinder of paper round the globe and trace the map you get the projection. That's why the equatorial areas are correctly sized and the artic & antartic areas are expanded.
@@jigglerjohn yes but it seems the distortion affects countries South of the equator more than those of the north (i.e. those on the south look smaller than actual size and those on the north look larger). It seems to exaggerate northern (i.e. European) countries more, which makes me wonder if such projection was selected for political/propaganda reasons... If you get my drift.
@@HaggardPillockHD as far as I know, it has become widespread because it helps navigation, and from there it become widespread elsewhere too simply because people didn't know better, I guess?
@Haggard Pillock That´s because the equator is usually not shown in the middle of Mercator maps cause there are more landmass on the northern hemisphere. For example New Zealand has the same distance to the equator as Italy although New Zealand seems to be more south on most maps. It would be unnessesary to show more of Antarctica, so no propaganda reasons.
@@peacerichtku5280 seems to make practical sense. Cheers
I've known about this site for years but I have never figured out how to rotate the shapes
Excellent video, fellow fan of The Thing.
so why do we have a map with wrong proportions in the classrooms? That's what I want to know
ChrisX7 ok, so prove it
The thing I see proven in the comment section are errors in the comparisons made in the video, not the fact that "is a lie that the Merrcator projection distort the proportion between places", therefore I don't see how your random comment "the video is wrong" is answering in any way to my question of "why do we have maps in classroom using the Merrcator projection?".
And those much better projection are the one that should be used in school I think, or at least warn students about this fact and how to properly interpret that map
Yeah, the other people in the comments section are wrong too, Mercator is great for depicting navigational lines, it was never meant to be used as indicative of scale of the globe so people using it as a general world map, and trying to determine size of country based off of it, are wrong. So no, it's not made wrong, no projection is really, just there are hundreds of different projections because, as said, there's no perfect way to show a sphere on a 2d map and so there are very specialized projections for specific uses. Using Mercator projection to try and depict an accurate world map is inherently wrong because it blows up everything in the northern hemisphere.
Marcus Aseth same reason we have a white Jesus..a pride thing.for example africa is the 2nd largest .it is expected that one answers that as the correct answer on a test but it doesn't look that way on maps does it.
I'm actually disappointed by the amount of people in the comment section stating this video is wrong with no evidence or link to their sources.
I'm dissapointed in the human race tbh.
Hyper420NOSCOPER A.K.A HONEYBEAR Excuse me? So now saying that people should use actual evidence when pointing out something is wrong rather than their using their opinions is idiotic? Oh well then, let's all use our biased opinions to prove points from now on! Just like you're doing right now!
I see no reason why to include Canadian in your comment, because its either a horrible guess or a racist insult of sorts. Which I don't understand why'd you think of me as Canadian, I didn't explicitly say or imply so in my comment. Why, more biased guessing and opinions to back your argument! Marvelous!
***** "I can't think of valid arguments against you so I'm going to throw vague, empty, and stupid insults at you because I'm a triggered six year old"
they dumb asf,
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Awe, why did that guy (Or Girl, Gender Equality) remove his comments. I wanna read his utterly retarded replies. Nice job roasting him, tho.
Prride Maybe they realized they lost the argument or felt embarrassed.
And thank you btw
Thank you very educational and interesting.
I'm 62 and I learned alot I've never known!..I loved it all thankyou!
2016: "Hopefully we can all agree the earth is a sphere."
2021: "Well…"
It not flat either
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@@toxicGD12 The Earth is an Oblate Spheroid, not a sphere. Aside from all the mountains and valleys, it's chunky around the middle.
@@westrim ik
Earth is shaped as pangea
This revived my love on a history subject, straight forward.
Bruh
ayo its you
Ok
agreed
Nothing like a little geography to revive a love of history. Just the other day, I watched a video about math, and that revived my love of tennis.
Ok interesting video. But I don’t know why was the actual size maps are put against the white map lol, wasn’t it the point that it wasn’t projected correctly? Idk if that make sense but it’s a bit funny.
Sure there are places that look very distorted on a mercator map, but the distances in the extreme north and south don't matter much, since the only thing you would see down and up there is shipping... and they better know true distances anyway.