Pick any country and drag it around to compare its real area with others. It’s a neat way to see how the Mercator projection warps map sizes. Built with the World Atlas GeoJSON + country shapes (feel free to replace the data with your own).
- Github Repo which you can replace the geojson data with yours.
- Online playground for you to have a try
- Source of geojson data used
by Sudden_Beginning_597
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I liked how Canada, Greenland, and Russia changed sizes as you drag them to the equator.
The Mercator projection really does distort the sizes.
I used your playground site.
thanks, i never knew svalbard is like 1/5th the size of mainland norway, and just how small the country is in general
https://preview.redd.it/wghazw1zmu8g1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=a716c45c7f67863afa20b56245eddc7d9746cf48
This already [exists](https://thetruesize.com/)
Wait, Alaska alone is like 1/3 of the contiguous USA? God Damn. I did not know that.
I knew it was huge, but still.
Fun and fascinating. Thank you!