This map and the animated version is weird, it applies the scaling uniformly to each country, but the size error is concentrated in the extreme north and south.

This map and the animated version is weird, it applies the scaling uniformly to each country, but the size error is concentrated in the extreme north and south. It makes it look like the projection is exaggerating specific countries (like it was politically corrupted to do so intentionally) rather than exaggerating particular latitudes. ... and who didn't grow up with access to a globe that is reading this article?