What the map of the earth really looks like. New Japanese world map. World Map: False or Real

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 AuthaGraph projection principles, 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 habitat of man. 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 ...

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 larger number of the population is not given 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 sooner or later we will figure out all this confusion!))

World Map: False or Real?

So, on our agenda. This is how she is introduced to us from childhood:

It's simple. We find a map of the flat earth world 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 is not all...

Comparison

Here is the official UN emblem:

Don't you notice anything?

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

A question for skeptics - How so?)

Is it 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 lost visually. 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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Start doing hands-on experiments. For example, get in a car and drive a long distance from one city to another on your own and compare this with the official map on Yandex.

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

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 an 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 projection.

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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 Meteorological 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. The 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 the world maps tended to be varied, from hearts to cones. But the diversity 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 based on 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 world map 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 made manual adjustments by 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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Many people know that the geographical map of the world familiar to us 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?

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

How do the authors of the new world map explain the need for its appearance?
"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 a 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 AuthaGraphic World Map seeks to support this new point of view and show how our globe really looks like and how the interests of different countries and groups are distributed across it. "

According to its creators, the new map of the world will allow you to look at the planet and its individual corners from a new angle and get rid of ingrained stereotypes like "Western world", "Far East", "go north."

For comparison: a world map drawn in 1844

World map of the 1490s, with the help of which Columbus convinced Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile of the need to support his expedition.