How Large is Europe? No, I mean really?

Or just look at a globe.

Interesting to see how the corrected the 'distortion'

Ive searched my phone apps, cant fnd a globe.

Thanks for the reminder that I really have been wanting to get a globe. Used to have one and I can't remember getting rid of it (though it was decades old and way behind on country names and borders!). I've just ordered one. Nothing like a globe to get the real sense of distances and relative sizes.

Will visit the largest globe collection at the Austrian National Library when I am Vienna in December. I have seen the oldest globe in Nuremberg at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. We had a very nice globe that I was gifted at work, but gave it away during a downsizing of our home.

A few days ago, the UN passed a resolution to encourage nations to use a more true-to-size representation of the world. Using the "Equal Earth projection" vs the archaic "Mercator projection" (from 1569!).

For kids who looked at maps and were amazed how large places like Greenland appear, the newer map of the world tries to represent it (and others) in their smaller, more accurate size. It generally affects most Northern Hemisphere land masses, and it would normally seem like a "good idea" to aim for best representation of size especially in maps.

NPR story link