The fact that there are more people living in South-East Asia than anywhere else is a little less astounding (but still amazing & unbalanced) if you take away t

The fact that there are more people living in South-East Asia than anywhere else is a little less astounding (but still amazing & unbalanced) if you take away the deformation of the Mercator projection. Large areas like Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and Australia are pretty stretched out when compared to SEA on our world maps.