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Greenland's actual size on a map

Maps lie: Greenland is not bigger than Africa

Many world maps use the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of landmasses, especially near the poles. This often makes Greenland appear much larger than it actually is when compared to continents like Africa.

Topics: Greenland size memesMercator projection memesAfrica size memes

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