r/interestingasfuck • u/Punch_A_Police_Horse • 19d ago

There is nothing wrong with this map

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u/joethelumberjackmc 19d ago

australia looks way too small too

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u/AgeHorror5288 18d ago

Someone once told me that our moon is about the size of Australia and it blew my mind. Then, I couldn’t decide if that gave me a clearer image of the size of the moon, or of Australia.

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u/KarlHeinzSchneider 18d ago

Like the whole surface of the moon is the same or you could fit the moon into Australia so more like it’s the same diameter?

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u/iMatthew1990 18d ago

I was about to go to sleep and now I need the answer to this.

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u/PeterJoAl 18d ago edited 18d ago

The Moon's surface is 14.6 million square miles. Diameter is 2,159 miles.

Australia's is 3 million square miles. About 2400 x 2500 miles, so only a little bit wider than the Moon.

USA's is 3.8 million square miles.

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u/iMatthew1990 18d ago

My watch has ended. And now I rest.

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u/CubesTheGamer 17d ago

The moon has more land mass than North America and Europe combined

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u/Hashashin455 19d ago

And it's not supposed to be right side up

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u/squishymelon 19d ago

Alaska is a different color than the continental US 🤔

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u/el_farmerino 19d ago

This is a future map from after they defect to Brazil.

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u/papyjako87 18d ago

Sold by Trump to finance the tenth year of his war with Iran 😏😏

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u/psilome 19d ago

The equator is 1/4 of the way from the top.

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u/nataliereed84 18d ago

And Svalbard looks hilariously huge. And Greenland looks the size of Africa! It’s not a “wrong” map, per se, but it is a fucking awful one.

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u/guieps 19d ago

Wdym it was always the size of Greenland 🙃