Eiri comments on Denominator, go Mercator

submitted 9 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't that kinda make Canada look smaller than the US?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

Canada (9.98M sqkm) is only slightly larger than the US (9.83M sqkm), so it checks out that they're really close in size here

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[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Huh. I was convinced there was a bigger difference.

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[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 1 point 9 months ago

It's because they've got everything north of Hudson's Bay broken out separately.

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