time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 17 days agoThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectionimagemessage-square214linkfedilinkarrow-up1644arrow-down129
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minus-squareremon@ani.socialcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down10·17 days agoCanada total area: 9,984,670 km^2 USA total area: 9,866,624 km^2 Have a look a the respective 2nd digits of those numbers and consider that 9 is indeed bigger than 8. Source: Wikipedia.
minus-squareAlcoholicorn@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down8·17 days agoTotal land area: 9,093,507 You are counting ocean as part of Canada, a thing not represented on maps. Imagine being this condescending and wrong.
minus-squareremon@ani.socialcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·17 days agoNo oceans were counted. But the total area does includes lakes and rivers. And I already said earlier that the US slightly larger when you just look at land area. It’s no where near 10% though.
minus-squareMBech@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·17 days agoYour numbers add up to about 1% difference in size, not 10%
minus-squareT00l_shed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·17 days ago Imagine being this condescending and wrong You’re the one doing it
Canada total area: 9,984,670 km^2
USA total area: 9,866,624 km^2
Have a look a the respective 2nd digits of those numbers and consider that 9 is indeed bigger than 8.
Source: Wikipedia.
Total land area: 9,093,507
You are counting ocean as part of Canada, a thing not represented on maps.
Imagine being this condescending and wrong.
No oceans were counted. But the total area does includes lakes and rivers.
And I already said earlier that the US slightly larger when you just look at land area. It’s no where near 10% though.
Your numbers add up to about 1% difference in size, not 10%
You’re the one doing it