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I can't get over how wrong my idea of Brazil's shape was.

• lysium 9y ago
  That is a distortion, I think. Look at the longitude and latitude lines in the sea.
  • ghaff 9y ago
    It looks as if this map generally is designed to localize the inevitable shape distortions to areas where there isn't "interesting" detail and therefore those distortions aren't as obvious. But because of the way Brazil sticks out, it ended up getting stretched a fair bit.
• Normal_gaussian 9y ago
  https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-17.0240988,-56.5103846,9434934m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-17.0240988,-56.5103846,94349...
• notatoad 9y ago
  That was my first reaction, until i remembered that i've seen a globe before, and my general perception of the shapes of countries is informed by a globe and not just the mercator projection. This map might bill itself as "the most accurate", but it's still making some crazy distortions. Mercator might get some sizes wrong, but it gets the shapes mostly right.