422 years ago, and especially since 1596, a map of the world has been shown using Mercator projection, or cartographic projection in order to help seafarers explore the world and become common and reliable in schools and books.
But the browser for the map can easily discover that there is something unusual in the size of countries, namely Greenland, North America, and Russia. They look much bigger than their real size, but they are also bigger than the continent of Africa, which is not true at all.
It is known that Africa is three times larger than North America, and larger than Russia too. India is also known to be larger than the Scandinavian countries combined, although the common map shows the exact opposite, while Greenland in the traditional map is 14 times larger .
However, knowing that maps is a mistake is not new, but new is the appearance of new graphics showing the extent of error in these Mercator maps.
As can be seen from the new "attached" maps, the amount of variation and imbalance in country sizes can be seen between the common and the actual, of course, relatively, according to the British newspaper Mirror.
The new map also shows the areas of countries compared to those in Mercator maps, including China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Australia, Turkey and many European countries, as well as some Canadian islands in the north of the continent.
But the truth is that Mercator has made a great effort to represent the shape of states, but at the expense of size, certainly also in favor of the rich countries, the Nordic countries.
The new two-dimensional map is the implementation of the climate data world at the British Meteorological Bureau, Neil Kay, and shows that the real size of the Nordic countries in particular is much smaller than it actually is.
In drawing his two-dimensional map, Kay used meteorological data on the size of countries and introduced them by applying Jay-Jay Plott, a visual data package for statistical programming.
He then drew the final map using the stereographic projection rather than dropping Mercator, as the first transforms the circular shape into a flat shape.
Of course, there was a need to resort to manual labor in the distribution of countries according to location on the map, but the problem with the new map is that it does not link all countries with each other, as is the case.
