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Denominator, go Mercator (mander.xyz)
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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I don't know what you mean by "other such variations", but maybe you are looking for a map with something like the Mollweide projection? That's a bit of distortion in shape but trying to keep areas real.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    What do they call the projections that have slices taken out of them at the oceans?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    The projection is the mathematical transformation from the curved surface of the Earth to a mathematical surface. You can have types of projections based on the mathematical surface (conical, cylindrical...), or based on the features they want to rescue from this transformation (conformal, equal-area...), but, sorry, I've never heard of a classification based on these "slices". Moreover, now that I think of it, even those projections we are familiar with have to be cut somewhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    No, because Africa is larger than Russia, this shows Russia as massive.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Africa: 30.3 million km²

    Asia: 44 million km²

    Nowhere near the difference Mercator projection maps make it out to be, but Asia definitely is larger.

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