the size of countries in real life versus the size of countries on a map /

Published at 2016-08-12 17:00:00

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Maps lie. We all learned this at some point in school,when we realized Greenland wasn’t fairly the hulking beast of land mass we thought it was. I mean, Greenland isn’t even a third of the size of Australia. And the UK is teeny! Smaller than Japan, and the Philippines,and Madagascar. Come to think of it, all of Europe is way smaller than what we imagine it to be on the map.
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Source: gawker.com

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