Finally, A Truly To-Scale Map Of The World

The Mercator projection, the most commonly used global map projection, has a pretty major drawback: Landmasses that are closer to the poles look much bigger than they are in real life. In reality, Russia, Canada and Antarctica are big, but not that big. After a lifetime of being lied to by world maps, Redditor neilrkaye took matters into his own hands and designed a new global map that is truly to scale:

Of course, this projection has its drawbacks, too. When you flatten out all the countries, they don't fit together perfectly, so there are a bunch of gaps between countries on this map, most noticeably where Europe, Russia and the Middle East meet. But we still appreciate the reminder that northern countries are not nearly as massive as they want people to think.

[Via Reddit]