The "Mercator distortion" | The True Size Of Africa Is Shocking | If we want someone to blame for this distortion, then we need look no further than the year 1569 when the cartographer Gerardus Mercator...

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The "Mercator distortion" | The True Size Of Africa Is Shocking | If we want someone to blame for this distortion, then we need look no further than the year 1569 when the cartographer Gerardus Mercator... (www.zerohedge.com)

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>The Mercator-based distortion makes the country appear roughly twice as long from West to East as Africa is from North to South.

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https://pic8.co/sh/l93HW8.jpeg >>The Mercator-based distortion makes the country appear roughly twice as long from West to East as Africa is from North to South. https://pic8.co/sh/hTu32k.jpeg

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I plugged the numbers in for Madagascar. By area it's somewhere between California and Texas.

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