Since its creation, however, cartographers have produced other ways to visualize the globe. “People's ideas of geography are not founded on actual facts but on Mercator's map,” British cartographer G.
This exercise is an eye-opening look at how this map might have affected our view on the world-concerns that were raised as far back as the early 20th century. You can do this for any country by simply typing its name into the map, allowing for a seemingly endless amount of comparisons. To uncover these often-stark differences, the True Size Map was created-a interactive website that allows you to drag countries and continents around the Mercator projection and discover just how big they are (or aren’t).
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