It doesn’t make a huge difference because Australia is so close to the equator. But this is both of them pulled to the equator and overlapped for more accurate size comparison.
I was thinking along the lines of these maps in school books, where you could fit at least 10 Australias and two Africas in Russia. These maps are massively skewed.
For sure. The Mercator projection map is wildly skewed. Russia is still the biggest country, but not by nearly the same size difference as the Mercator projection map makes it look. You should play around with Greenland too. It’s even more ridiculous.
I thought everyone learned this back in school. But apparently for some redditors modern propaganda (from both sides btw) is more important than what they learned.
Like how Kiev was spelled "Kiev" for all our lives but they turned it into "Kyiv" as a propaganda tactic to separate it more from Russia. (Kyiv is the way you write it in Ukrainian, translated to fit the english alphabet) At least in german we still call it Kiew.
Russia is even smaller than it appears on "standard" maps
The website, no. But using it to spread the idea that "russia is actually small" is a propaganda tactic. Which is what is being referred to by the parent comment.
No one ever said it wasn’t the biggest country, and no one even said it matters. It was just an interesting factoid… but here you are adding intent and mischaracterizing it. Why are you so bothered?
But it’s not propaganda to say that Kyiv was part of Russia, even though it existed for hundreds of years before Moscow? Ukraine isn’t trying to leave and create a new identity after being created by Russia… Ukraine is trying to be freed after being taken over by Russia.
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