We’ve covered this point before but Mike Nudelman’s map above really drives it home again: the Mercator projection screws everything up. Under the map you probably grew up with, South America and Europe look roughly the same size. They’re not.
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South America is the size of three Europes and other geography facts your map is lying about
Christina Sterbenz, Dylan Matthews, map, Mike Nudelman, South America
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