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site for seeing the real size of countries relative to each other

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:48 am
by cl0ud
[https://www.thetruesize.com]

I wonder if I'm doing the [url] thing correctly :geek:

If that doesn't work: maybe [this](https://www.thetruesize.com) will work.
Or is it like (this)[https://www.thetruesize.com]?

You can "spawn" countries in (they're color-coded) and you can drag them around to "unstretch" them cause cause on most maps countries closer to the poles look bigger cause you're displaying a sphere on a 2d space so there's inevitable distortion.
And yk, you compare countries' sizes with each other.

Re: site for seeing the real size of countries relative to each other

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2025 3:38 pm
by Mæstro
BBCode is not Reddit Markdown. ;)
To use [url​], write [url​=http​://www​.example.​com]text[/url], where ‘text’ stands for the words you would like to feature in the hyperlink: text.
Atlases often include diagrams like this, overlaying various important foreign countries, such as Japan or the USA, and also lakes over the country of origin. Because this is often overlooked, I will say in Mercator’s defence that it preserves all directions, which are the most important when navigating, intact.

Re: site for seeing the real size of countries relative to each other

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 9:58 pm
by cl0ud
I wasn't thinking Reddit but yeah, thought it was md.
So it's kinda like html. Thanks for the demonstration :D

Re: site for seeing the real size of countries relative to each other

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2025 5:13 pm
by Limette
This is actually neat for showcasing that Russia isn't quite as huge as world maps make it out to be. It's still an incredibly large country, but like. It's about the size of north Africa. Which... also showcases how comparebly small Africa is portrayed on world maps.

Re: site for seeing the real size of countries relative to each other

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2025 3:58 pm
by rejectconvenience
I flipping love this website, I could spend hours just moving things around over and over.... oh noooooo I'm getting sucked back into it goooodbyyyeeeeee