Name: 世界地圖如何看起來與你想象的大相徑庭？ (How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think)
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00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,020 The map of the world is a lot stranger

than you think it is, especially this map.

You've probably seen it a lot in classrooms or office buildings.

But this map is extremely, very badly wrong.

As we can all hopefully agree upon, the Earth is a sphere.

And that means that it is impossible to accurately depict

This particular common map is called the Mercator Projection.

And if you'd like to experiment with countries for yourself,

please go to this website called TheTrueSize.com

after this video to see what I'm talking about.

Let's take the US state of Wyoming as an example.

Under the assumption that Wyoming is actually

a real place and not a land full of tumbleweeds

with a population less than downtown Baltimore,

As we stack one unit of Wyoming on top of each other,

we get more and more distorted as we approach the North Pole,

to the point where we don't even really recognize

they get more squished together as we approach the equator.

This will happen with every other landmass in the world.

But first, let's take a look at some other US states.

They say that everything is bigger in Texas.

Texas is much bigger than Spain and Portugal

put together and is also even bigger than France.

But Texas is only the second biggest US state behind Alaska,

But while Alaska is large, it isn't that large.

Taken down to the US mainland, it compares like this.

And taking it to Europe, it looks like this.

take the time to understand how much bigger Europe seems

Let's start by taking France and moving it down

to Africa to get our first glimpse at this.

The United Kingdom seems pretty large as well.

like Japan, the Philippines, Sumatra, Madagascar,

and the UK looks so small just off the east coast

It can be placed to cover almost the entire continental US.

Interestingly, the combination of the following countries

will not cover that same area-- Portugal, the Netherlands,

Estonia, Albania, Hungary, Belgium, Bosnia

and Herzegovina, Austria, Croatia, Latvia,

the Czech Republic, Serbia, Switzerland, Slovakia,

Lithuania, Denmark, Ireland, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania,

the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, France, Spain,

And that's not even factoring in big but not too big Alaska

is Canada, which also seems huge up here.

And while Canada is a very large country,

it's actually roughly the same size as China

placed in Europe, where it stretches from east to west

to Portugal to Iran and up north into the Barents Sea just

Slightly off topic-- Japan is another bigger place

If Japan were placed off the US East Coast,

But much, much bigger than Japan and also not often thought

about is Brazil, which is an absolutely massive country.

It doesn't really look like it on our map.

we can actually discover that Brazil is much bigger, which

makes Brazil larger than one of the world's seven continents.

Brazil is also almost larger than the United States, spans

almost all of Europe, but fits rather snugly into Africa.

We are about to discover that Africa is a colossal continent

It can almost fit the entire contiguous United

in China, Western Europe, India, Argentina,

Scandinavia, and the UK and still have some room left over.

Russia is another place that looks pretty

But drop it down next to Africa, she also

seems much smaller than what our map was telling us beforehand.

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