Earth map without distortion. New Japanese world map. What's wrong with the Mercator map

Hello dear Reader! With this article, we will continue the topic of flat earth and present one more fact proving the correctness of this theory. Do not rush to spit into the monitor if you are a skeptic of this topic, but just study the proposed material and check it yourself.

Of course, a large number of the population is not given the opportunity to check what the map of the world in which we live in really should be. But a curious mind always wants to believe that our world is not what we are used to seeing it. And not only people live on this big land.

But in all this confusion, we will figure it out sooner or later!))

World Map: False or Real?

So, on the agenda we have. This is how she is introduced to us from childhood:

It's simple. We find a map of the world of a flat earth on the Internet:

What do you see? Doesn't this ratio of continents remind you of the sizes that Yandex showed us? Coincidence or coincidence?

But that's not all...

Comparison

Here is the official UN emblem:

Don't you notice anything?

• Firstly, on it there are just all the continents in relation to each other of the size that the Yandex ruler shows us;
• Secondly, it closely resembles a flat earth map. Don’t you?

A question for skeptics - How so?)

Is this a coincidence, or are they really pushing us from childhood? And most importantly - why are they doing it? And why is Russia artificially enlarged, as if they wanted to scare someone with their mass)) Or cover it up? Indeed, against the background of huge Russia, Australia is visually lost. Maybe there is something hiding on its territory? And want people to look anywhere but tiny Australia? Hmm ... One can only guess ...

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It hides not only the real size, but also the continents. We will definitely tell you about one of them on the pages of the site, soon.

Many are aware that the world map we are used to does not reflect the real ratio of the areas of countries, and even more so seas and oceans. The use of the Mercator projection leads to the appearance of many distortions, when, for example, Greenland looks larger than Australia ... A fundamentally new projection, proposed by Japanese designers, made it possible to build the most accurate map of the world that humanity has ever seen.

How did they do it?

The traditional world map is built in the old way, in which the image from the surface of the globe is transferred to a flat map using the Mercator projection. As a result, we get Greenland on the map several times larger than Australia, while in fact Greenland is three times smaller ...

But the map, built according to the principles of the AuthaGraph projection, can be called really innovative! Here the proportions of land and water remain unchanged and correspond to what we see on the globe. AuthaGraph received the prestigious Japanese Good Design Award for this development.

Then comes the original process of transferring the image onto a plane by combining various methods of projection through intermediate objects. This "layered display" reduces the number of errors and monstrous distortions that occur with the traditional unfolding of the surface of the globe into a flat map.

Of course, it is impossible to achieve complete perfection, but the map from AuthaGraph is as close to it as possible.

“Antarctica was discovered in 1820 and the first man reached the North Pole in 1909. In the 20th century, relations between East and West and North-South problems came to the fore in world politics. The main territorial interest was land, which was the human habitat. But since the end of the twentieth century, depleting resources and environmental problems have forced attention to the polar regions and the territory of the oceans ...

The world map, to which we have become accustomed since childhood and which we use almost every day in Google Maps, is not entirely correct. Russia on it is gigantic; Greenland is larger than South America; the equator is not located in the middle, and the continents are elongated at the poles. This is the conformal Mercator projection.

The projection was invented in the Middle Ages by Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594), a Belgian geographer and cartographer, to represent a round earth on a two-dimensional plane for the needs of navigation. It retains the angles between the directions (whatever that means), but the dimensions of the continents are distorted.

After 500 years, two smart guys made the map interactive, opening people's eyes to the real wonderful world. The result is a cooler toy Pockemon Go, where you can rearrange countries and compare. The author of the article left to play at 12, returned only at five in the evening ...

While Hillary Clinton accuses Russian hackers of breaking into the mail of the US Democratic Party, let's compare Russia and America. Russia is bigger.

But only one and a half times ...

Two Europe and two Australia could fit on the territory of Russia, South America, Africa and Asia almost entirely ... Why does Russia look smaller when “moving”? This is the Mercator projection. Moving countries, you can compare them, but we must not forget that this is just a game of imagination. In other words, Russia would be of this size if it were in the place of Africa, Australia, and so on ...

Australia looks tiny on the map - somewhere on the outskirts of the world. But it's America's size.

Bigger than Europe and only slightly inferior to China.

USA, Australia and India are located in Africa. By the way, on the interactive map you can not only move countries, but also rotate them 360 degrees. Very comfortably.

What is Greenland? I used to think that this is a huge icy continent, which for some reason is called an island.

About the European part of Russia ...

But here's the real Greenland! By area - like the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the Mercator projection, the land area stretches at the North and South Poles and, conversely, narrows slightly at the equator.

By the way, about the poles. Antarctica doesn't even fit on the map. It is impossible to depict the poles on it - it is flat.

But what if you put it in the Atlantic Ocean? We found Atlantis!

Let's move it to Russia and Antarctica is again moving beyond the edges, stretching indefinitely. This is what the Ice Continent would look like in the place of the Russian Federation.

The largest countries in Africa ...

Let's say Africa is trying to take over the world. It looks like M & M's peas scattered on the table.

America is taking over the world ...

Russia ... I just moved them to the North Pole area.

Put the USA in the Mediterranean and you get the Roman Empire. This is how she once was. Another interesting nuance: American cities in terms of climate will exactly coincide with European ones. After all, the weather in Chicago is similar to Bulgaria, Florida is similar to Egypt, and California is easy to confuse with Spain ...

On the contrary: six large European countries (Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania) in the United States. Conclusion: Europe as a whole can move to America. And there will still be room.

Another former empire is the British. The small island country has managed to inherit all over the world.

I read somewhere that 78 Italia will fit on the territory of Russia. Checked: fit 23. But that's because Italy has become bigger.

Japan resembles Baikal in shape.

There are only four places in the world where you can admire the geysers: Iceland, Kamchatka, New Zealand and Yellowstone National Park in the USA. This is what happens if you put Iceland in each of them ... It's tiny.

"Moscow region" in Spain.

The tiny island could be lost somewhere in the Mediterranean. And no one would have noticed.

Or in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Madagascar fits perfectly in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

And Jamaica is in White ... But they would not like it.

Heard about the country of New Caledonia?

No wonder ...

Finally, the ten largest countries on the equator - this is the best way to compare their sizes. Russia, Canada, China, USA, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Algeria. What is Algeria doing in the top ten? So I was surprised ...

If you look at a map of the world, you will probably think that North America and Russia are larger than Africa. In reality, however, Africa is three times the size of North America and significantly larger than Russia.

This strange distortion was investigated by climate data scientists from the UK's National Weather Service (Met Office, Met Office), which created a two-dimensional map showing what the world actually looks like. It turned out that many countries - including Russia, Canada and Greenland - are not as big as we think. Distortion originates from the Mercator projection, the map most commonly seen in classrooms and textbooks. It was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the sea.

What's wrong with the Mercator map?

Africa is about 14 times the size of Greenland, and yet they are nearly the same size on the map. Brazil is more than 5 times the size of Alaska, but Alaska is larger than Brazil on the map. The map shows that the Scandinavian countries are larger than India, while in fact India is 3 times the size of all the Scandinavian countries combined. While Europe looks larger than North America on this map, the opposite is actually true. Russia is also not as big as it is depicted - in fact, Africa is larger than Russia.

The biggest problem with making an accurate map is that it is impossible to depict the reality of a spherical world on a flat map - a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries. As a result, the shapes of world maps tended to be varied - from hearts to cones. But the variety gradually disappeared with the arrival of one model, proposed by Gerardus Mercator in 1596. The Mercator projection shows the regular shape of the parcels of land, but at the cost of distorting their size in favor of the land to the north.

Gerard Mercator(March 5, 1512 - December 2, 1594) - Flemish cartographer famous for creating a map of the world from a projection showing sailing routes in the form of straight lines. While this is what he is best known for, Mercator was more than just a geographer. He also studied theology, philosophy, history, mathematics and magnetism. Mercator was also an engraver and calligrapher, and even made globes and scientific instruments. Unlike other geographers of the time, he traveled little. Instead, his knowledge of geography was based on his library of over a thousand books and maps. In the 1580s, he began publishing his atlas, which he named after a giant from Greek mythology who held the world on his shoulders. He suffered a series of strokes in the early 1590s that left him partially paralyzed and nearly blind. The last blow caused his death in 1594 at the age of 82.

Neil Kay, climate data scientist at Met Office, has created an accurate map of the world that shows that the countries in the Northern Hemisphere are much smaller than people usually think. To do this, he entered data on the size of each country in Ggplot, which is a visualization data package for statistical programming. Then he created a map using the projection sterographic... It is a display function that projects a sphere onto a plane. After that, Kay did some manual adjustments, adjusting the size of the countries that are closer to the poles. Thus, according to Kay, you cannot put all the shapes back on the sphere after they have already been laid on the plane.

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Have you ever wondered that real sizes of countries different from those shown on maps? In principle, for a Soviet schoolchild, such would not be of any interest, since all students knew about them, even with average academic performance.

However, in our time, the data presented in the article can shock some representatives of the new generation of young people.

So, the real sizes of countries and continents differ from what we see on the maps. For example, looking at a map, you might think that Russia is substantially larger than the continent. In fact, Africa (≈ 30 million km²) is almost twice as large as Russia (≈ 17 million km²).

Why does it depend? Maybe someone deliberately wants to misinform us? No friends. It's all about the projection.

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