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Many are aware that the world's usual map does not really correctly reflect the real ratio of the areas of countries, and even moreover, the seas and oceans. The use of a projection of the Mercator leads to the emergence of a variety of distortion, when, for example, Greenland looks larger than Australia ... A fundamentally new projection proposed by Japanese designers has allowed to build the most accurate map The world, which mankind has ever seen.

How did they succeed?

The traditional world map is constructed by an old way, in which the image from the surface of the globe is transferred to a flat map using the projection of the Mercator. As a result, we get on the map Greenland several times larger than Australia, whereas in fact Greenland are three times less ...

But the map built according to the principles of the AUTHAGRAPH projection can be really innovative! Here, the proportions of sushi and water remain unchanged and correspond to what we see and on the globe. For this development, AUTHAGRAPH received a prestigious award - Japanese GOOD DESIGN AWARD.

Then there is an original process of transferring the image to the plane by combining various projection methods through intermediate objects. Such a "multi-layer display" reduces the number of errors and monstrous distortion that occurs with the traditional deployment of the surface of the globe into a flat map.

Of course, it is impossible to achieve complete perfection, but the map from Authagraph is as close as possible.

"Antarctica was opened in 1820, and the first person reached the North Pole in 1909. In the 20th century, relations between East and the West and the North-South Problems were published on the foretone of world politics. The main territorial interest was sushi, which was a human habitat. But since the end of the twentieth century, extinguishing resources and problems ambient Forced to pay attention to the polar regions and the territory of the oceans ...

Map of the world to which we are accustomed from childhood and which almost daily use Google Maps.- not quite correct. Russia on her giant sizes; Greenland more South America; The equator is located not in the middle, but the continents are elongated at the poles. This is an equilibonal projection of the Mercator.

The projection was invented in the Middle Ages Gerard Mercator (1512-1594), a Belgian geographer and a cartographer to imagine a round ground on a two-dimensional plane for the needs of naval. It retains the angles between the directions (whatever mean), but the dimensions of the continents are distorted.

500 years later, two smart guy made a map of interactive by opening the eyes to the real amazing world. It turned out toy twist Pockemon Go, where you can rearrange the countries and compare. The author of the article went to play 12, returned only at five in the evening ...

While Hillary Clinton accuses Russian hackers in the hacking mail of the US Democratic Party, compare Russia and America. Russia is more.

But just a half times ...

In Russia, two European and two Australia could fit in Russia, South America, Africa and Asia almost entirely ... Why does Russia look smaller with "moving"? This is the projection of the Mercator. By moving the country, you can compare them, but you can not forget that this is just the game of imagination. In other words, such sizes would be Russia if there were on the spot of Africa, Australia and so on ...

Australia on the map looks like a tiny - somewhere on the severity of the world. But it is American.

More Europe and only a little inferior to China.

The United States, Australia and India are placed on the territory of Africa. By the way, on interactive Map You can not only move the country, but also to rotate them by 360 degrees. Very comfortably.

What is Greenland? I used to think that this is a huge ice mainland, which for some reason is called the island.

Approximately with the European part of Russia ...

But here is real Greenland! By area - as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the projection of the Mercator, Sushi Square is stretched from the North and South Poles and, on the contrary, slightly narrows at the equator.

By the way, about the poles. Antarctica is not even placed on the map. Poles on it can not be depicted - it is flat.

But what will happen if placing it in the Atlantic Ocean? We found Atlantis!

I move it to Russia and Antarctica again leaves for the edges, stretching to infinity. So it would look like ice mainland on the site of the Russian Federation.

The biggest countries of Africa ...

Imagine Africa is trying to seize the world. It looks like a M & M's pea scattered on the table.

America captures the world ...

Russia ... I just moved them to the area of \u200b\u200bthe North Pole.

Pose US in the Mediterranean Sea and the Roman Empire will turn out. Such she was once. Yet an interesting nuance: American cities climate accurately coincide in European. After all, the weather in Chicago is about as in Bulgaria, Florida is similar to Egypt, and California is easy to confuse with Spain ...

On the contrary: Six large European countries (Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania) in the United States. Conclusion: Europe can move to America entirely. And another place will remain.

Another former empire is British. A small island country has managed to legate around the world.

I read somewhere that 78 Italy will fit in Russia. Checked: 23 was placed. But this is because Italy has become more.

Japan in shape resembles Baikal.

In the world there are only four places where you can admire the geysers: Iceland, Kamchatka, New Zealand and Yellowstone National Park in the United States. That's what will happen if you place Iceland in each of them ... She's tiny.

Moscow Region in Spain.

A tiny island could be lost somewhere in the Mediterranean. And no one would notice.

Or in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Madagascar perfectly placed in the Sea of \u200b\u200bOkhotsk.

And Jamaica - in white ... but they would not like it.

I heard about the country New Caledonia?

Nothing amazing ...

Finally, the ten largest countries in the equator - it is best to compare their dimensions. Russia, Canada, China, USA, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Algeria. What does Algeria do in the top ten? So I was surprised ...

Did you ever think about what real sizes of countries differ from those shown in geographic maps? In principle, for the Soviet schoolchild, there would be no such interest, since they knew all the students even with average academic performance.

However, in our time, the data given in the article can plunge into some representatives of the new generation of youth.

So, the real size of countries and continents differ from what we see on the maps. For example, looking at the map, you might think that Russia is essential more continent . In fact, Africa (≈ 30 million km²) on the scale of the territory almost twice as much more Russia (≈ 17 million km²).

Why does it depend? Maybe someone deliberately wants to disinform us? No, friends. It's all about the projection.

We offer, which for one minute will demonstrate to you what we wrote about above. Maybe after watching you will understand everything that was not learned when reading.

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Hello, dear reader! This article we will continue the subject of flat land and give another fact of proving the correctness of this theory. Do not rush to spit into the monitor if you are a skeptic of this topic, and simply learning the proposed material and check it yourself.

Of course, the greatest number of people is not given to check what a world map actually should be in which we live. But a curious mind always wants to believe that our world is not as much as we used to see him. And live on this big land Not only people.

But in all this confusion, we will understand sooner or later!))

World map: false or real?

So, on the agenda we have. So they are submitted to us since childhood:

Everything is simple. Find a map of the world of flat land on the Internet of the Internet:

What do you see? Does it remind you of the ratio of continents, the sizes that Yandex showed us? Coincidence or chance?

But that's not all...

Comparison

Here is the official UN emblem:

Do not notice anything?

• First of all, it is just all the continents in relation to each other of the size that shows us the Yandex line;
• Secondly - it is very reminiscent of a flat land map. Do not find?

Question to skeptics - how so?)

This coincidence or do we really have something pushing from childhood? And most importantly - why do they do it? And why Russia is artificially enlarged, as if scared someone wanted by their mass)) or cover? After all, against the background of vast Russia, Australia is lost visually. Can something hide something on her territory? And they want people to watch anywhere, but not on a tiny Australia? Hmm ... It remains only to guess ...

Call to action

We cannot climb into space, unfortunately, but we have the Internet, brains and eyes. Close all textbooks, we do not know where they really are, and where is a lie. Become the discovers, without looking at the story.

Start making practical experiences. For example, sit down in the car and drive yourself a long distance from one city to another and compare it with an official card on Yandex.

Let's look for inconsistencies in our strange world together.

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It hides not only real sizes, but the continents about one of them we will definitely tell on the pages of the site, soon.

Many know that the usual us geographic map The world does not correctly reflect the real ratio of the areas of countries, and even more so seas and oceans. The use of the projection of the Mercator leads to the emergence of a multitude of distortion when, for example, Greenland looks larger than Australia ... A fundamentally new projection proposed by Japanese designers has made it possible to build the most accurate map of the world that humanity has ever seen.

How did they succeed?

The traditional world map is constructed by an old way, in which the image from the surface of the globe is transferred to a flat map using the projection of the Mercator. As a result, we get on the map Greenland several times larger than Australia, whereas in fact Greenland are three times less ...

But the map built according to the principles of the AUTHAGRAPH projection can be really innovative! Here, the proportions of sushi and water remain unchanged and correspond to what we see and on the globe. For this development, AUTHAGRAPH received a prestigious award - Japanese GOOD DESIGN AWARD.

Then there is an original process of transferring the image to the plane by combining various projection methods through intermediate objects. Such a "multi-layered display" reduces the number of errors and monstrous distortion that occurs with the traditional deployment of the surface of the globe into a flat card.

Of course, it is impossible to achieve complete perfection, but the map from Authagraph is as close as possible.

How do the authors of the new world map need the need for her appearance?
"Antarctica was opened in 1820, and the first person reached the North Pole in 1909. In the 20th century, the relations between East and the West and the North-South Problems were reached on the foretone of world politics. The main territorial interest was sushi, which was a human habitat. But since the end of the twentieth century, extinguishing resources and environmental problems forced attention to the polar regions and the territory of the oceans ...
The AUTHAGRAPHIC world map seeks to support this new point of view and show how our actually looks like earth And the interests of various countries and groups are distributed on it. "

According to her creators, new map The world will make it possible to look at the planet and separate corners of her under a new angle and freed from the emerged stereotypes like "Western World", "Far East", "Go to North".

For comparison: the world map drawn in 1844

World map of the 1490s, with the help of which Columbus urged Ferdinand Aragon and Isabella Castilskaya in the need to support his expedition.