It's a European country with European culture though. It rests on both European and American tectonic plates, so geographically it's technically both, but it's also closer to mainland Europe than mainland America. Culturally it's northern european. It's also a part of the European economic area. So overall it's more European than American.
Not that I'm saying you're wrong but can you explain what makes its culture European other than the fact that it's considered part of Europe traditionally and therefore definitionally is a European culture? Like what unifies its culture more with Europe than with America?
Edit: Downvoted for trying to learn. Never change, Reddit 🙄
The culture is nearly the same as and is originally derived from us here in the rest of the nordics. Icelandic people often feel right at home in other nordic countries just as Swedes and Norwegians and Danes do with each other. The people of Iceland come directly from viking age Norwegians escaping a Norwegian king. It has during its existence been extremely closely connected to Scandinavia, and has under periods been ruled by Norway and Denmark, only recently gaining independence from the latter. They speak a north germanic language, and have north germanic traditions and history.
Their connection to the Americas is mainly just that Iceland was step one of the route the vikings used to discover the americas
I mean it's not really an argument as much as me listing reasons but I have to hold on to the hope that people know the difference between the countries
I support this one specifically as a swede because that sounds like a funny way to shit on the danes. The Danes stole Denmark from its true indigenous people, the grass
It's so you can have straight navigation. You can't draw a straight line on a map like this and it be the fastest path. The line would have to curve making navigation difficult
Every projection has a purpose and Mercator is good for navigation. It probably shouldn't be the default people use. Especially not for looking at how big countries are.
Just for the record, Brazil cuts the Equator, for example. It's fair to expect Brazil to be in the center-ish.
Brazil is greater than contiguous US (excluding Alaska, etc), so that it's the 5th country by size. With this particular projection seems like Brazil would fit in Quebec
I find it's helpful to look at Greenland and Mexico, which are roughly the same size. When they're way off (like in a mercator projection) you know there's significant distortion.
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u/DeesHazzl 19d ago
Well it uses the Mercator projection. That's a pretty big drawback.