This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. The True Size Of … is an interactive map that lets you drag around different countries to see how they fit and what their relative size is to other countries. The different ways we can visualize our world in 2D has always fascinated me. (Via Kottke.) Expand - View Original
Super cool, thanks for sharing. I was a big geo nerd growing up. Crazy to see how Canada is pretty much as long as all of europe.
I'm just super thrown off that Alaska doesn't dwarf Texas like I've always thought. I mean, I knew in the back of my mind that that was due to distortion in projections, but still.