Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.
United States(English) Europe Belgium(English) Denmark(English) Deutschland(Deutsch) España(Español) Finland(English) France(Français) Ireland(English) Italia(Italiano) Luxembourg(English) Netherlands(English) Norway(English) Österreich(Deutsch) ...
Vote up the true-size map comparisons with US states that have you doing a double take. Maps are pretty amazing. They have the ability to present information of all kinds - everything from size, shape, and population to landscape and climate. Maps throughout history h...
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The map was created usingThe True Size of, an awesome new tool that allows for quick and easy comparisons of countries true sizes. As you can clearly see, it would take a lot of countries and US states to fully fill Africa. However, in terms of population, China with 1.36 billion peopl...
This visualization also highlights how distorted neighboring countries can look in Mercator projection. In the GIF above, Scandinavian countries no longer loom imposingly over their European neighbors, and Canada deflates to a size similar to the United States. ...
Africa, which straddles the Equator, barely changes in size — meanwhile, the countries furthest from the Equator become inflated from their true sizes on this type of map. For those of us living in Western countries, this is an interesting dilemma to consider. ...
became the 35th president of the United States in 1961, just 14 years after he was elected to the House of Representatives.InNovember 1963, he and his wife planned to go to Dallas. Hissecretary, named Lincoln, advised him not to go, but he went anyway, and was shot in the head ...
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We based our upper bounds on island biogeography theory, which states that continental bird diversity is greater than island bird diversity per unit area, due to the smaller system size (higher extinction) and greater geographical isolation (reduced immigration) of island systems31,38,73,116. We ...