• Xanthobilly@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I think I figured out one reason Trump is going after Greenland. It looks huge on a Mercator Projection map even though it isn’t that large.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Look at it, it’s almost as bit as Africa! We haven’t found who is the president of Africa, so we had to make do with Greenland though.

    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlM
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      3 months ago

      It looks huge on a Mercator Projection map even though it isn’t that large.

      In the Mercator projection it appears to have about the same area as Africa, while in reality it is about a 14th of it. But, I wouldn’t say that “isn’t that large”: if Greenland was independent it would be (and Denmark is, because of it) the 12th largest country in the world.