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1. Russia is big but not quite as big as I thought 2. China is bigger than I thought 3. India is even smaller than I thought

• ricardo81 6y ago
  It's probably bigger than you thought if you drag it down to the Antarctic, at least on my browser it covers about 90% of the planet. Bug obviously.
  • kuschku 6y ago
    That's actually not a bug, it's the definition of the mercator projection - everything at the poles is scaled infinitely. That's why the poles themselves are actually missing on mercator, as they'd be infinitely large. Without the cropping it'd just continue forever like this: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bf/26/a7/bf26a70c57a3eb00ecd3bf739ce6f953.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bf/26/a7/bf26a70c57a3eb00ecd3... So obviously if you move a country to the poles, it gets scaled larger and larger and larger.
    • ricardo81 6y ago
      I stand corrected.