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Sep 7, 2016 4:58 PM
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MrsSinner
If by "interesting" you mean "inaccurate." Because Mercator.
CompletelyIrrelevantGIF
wangchangbackup
The part about how big Australia is has always bothered me because like... it in no way changes the point about America's size.
MachineInterface
45 minute driving in another country in Europe? Well uh sure, if you live within 100 km of the border, maybe. But if you live in Paris 1/
MachineInterface
and want to go to Belgium, it's more like 2 hours in absolutely optimal conditions.
TheGreatDeerKing
PffftNext
Americans are so cute for comparing their states to other countries
bisqwit
As a Finnish person: meh. The length of Finland is ~same as for Texas, though it is narrower. Texas has twice the area.
NotoriousDuchess
Dude let the Americans feel special.
witsd
Cue: Russia
PrinceMaggot
I live in Texas, and I have never known this about other countries. I have just assumed relativity in size. My fucking head is hurting.
itsallmckay
Alaska is bigger than Texas....
PrayTell
I think we all know not even a texan would believe texas is that big compared to Europe.
CentaurForDiseaseControl
Shut up Australia most of Texas is desert too and Texas isn't our entire fucking country
Shockwaves
The world map isn't really in proportion though
SeriouslyJoking
I'm living in italy right now and we take day trips 2 countries over!
drickanderson
I can drive for 8 hours and not leave my state, and it's nowhere near the largest. Comparing Texas to Australia was just dumb, btw.
GrafBlutwurst
that's not where zurich is...
HerrOakwood
If you live 30 minutes from the mexican bordero in Texas, you also can change countries. 1/2
HerrOakwood
2/2 I live in Germany (Hamburg) when i drive 45min i'm not in another country, just in Lüneburg. :-)
MrTrollingtonFromSweden
Then you also have sweden wich mostly just is long as fuck, takes me 6-7H to drive to my capital cityand that is just half of my country.
aralleraill
Imma just leave this here https://youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY
supraman2turbo
Russia is never invited to this game
WillDrug
Russia plz. You ain't even left the city after 45m
ThisFireGrowsHigher
Fun fact:. Europe is actually the size of the Eastwood mall
SeraRelm
Which is a third the size of the King of Prussia mall!
Dassenator
I live between the Belgian and German border. 10 minute drive to Belgium. 15 minute drive to Germany. Booze is cheap is Germany. Yay!
charlierunkle
Same though. On the border of Germany in the Netherlands. Cheap booze!
PyroDragon
How are the waffles in Belgium?
blackletum
they're odd. they end to be blue in color
RockPaperSciccorsLizardSpock
I checked this out on Google pictures an yes they defenitely are!
charlierunkle
Limburg?
Dassenator
Yes
Ant4N
Lol lets not compare states to continents. Like Connecticut and Antarctica
bregma
I drive for 45 minutes I haven't even left my driveway. Damn, I need a new truck.
asparaguspancake
Hahaha, you are very funny.
littlemirrorsatourfeet
You can fit 2.5 Texases in Alaska
Awesummzz
On a map or on a globe?
crumpuppet
SlightlyRelatedToThePost
Lol "the true size" bit of a misnomer there
beardedbobcat
That's a neat site.
secretagentchewbacca
As an AP Human Geography teacher, thank you!!!
Zlimeshili
why does it look like most of canada is under water
yuch
Dot
Cobaltios
Doesn't have any locations from Canada besides Canada :P
ThisIsCanadaWinterIsAlwaysComing
I like this
DanN74
Dang. Just reposted this because I missed your post somehow. +1 for you.
0x5F3759DF
but why is this still on a mercator projection? I get that it scales texas and aus to the latitude, but that's pretty silly.
0x5F3759DF
Fixed it:
madeinamerica91
Why does the transposed Texas look much bigger than actual Texas?
OhDavidMyNacho
I think it's due to the outlining, which inflates the size.
TacticalZombie
Asking the real questions
FreyaNicci
Earth is a sphere while maps are not.
JaredKidd
They have to distort it to represent it on a square map
AvielMenter
Mercator Projection
darksamus8
If Texas was 'higher' up on the map, that's what it would look like, accounting for the distortion.
Armourhotdog
Magnets!
Revacus
They pulled Texas up toward Canada on that website. The farther north or south, the larger it seems.
Revacus
A more accurate representation would be if Texas, Canada, and Australia were all pulled toward the equator.
fyndir
Like this? I tried to place the flat bit at the west of Texas roughly on the equator.
Revacus
Yes, exactly. Thank you.
D3VI4N7
Mercator projection. The vertical scale gets more disproportionate the closer you are to the poles.
crumpuppet
open the site and drag it around, it'll make sense then. you have to think of it being slapped onto the side of a sphere.
browsib
I think it's pretty pointless comparing Australia with Texas when one is a state and the other's a country
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thepatioheater
There's more to Australasia/Oceania than that big island of Australia, like New Zealand and such.
CKnowles
What's pointless about it is that most of Aus is uninhabitable. It's 10x bigger with .9x as many people.
imjustheretofavouritethings
All of Aus is uninhabitable we are just too stubborn to leave.
iDrawStuff
Yeah, kind of like comparing a state to a continent.
Mazhiwe
Yah, but US states are really just lesser countries united under a single banner. A state is, by definition a nation.
HaircutsOfNicholasCage
Texas used to be a country, and is still in denial about the change. No, realy. We used to get stressed about it, but now we shoot things.
BitchButcher
Not sure if very subtle troll or slighty ignorant person.
Paratroop73
Found the Texan!
Cheomesh
...bruh
DanielHHH
* continent
sunshineastrobabe
Isn't Australia considered a continent and a country?
ignimbrite
Yes. Geopolitically it's an island continent. Geologically, it's connected to NZ, Indonesia and India as they're all part of the plate.
thepatioheater
There's more to Australasia/Oceania than that big island of Australia, like New Zealand and such.
jrharvii
Compare it to Western Australia?
valen00
Or QLD, NT, SA, NSW all are going to be in the same ballpark
jrharvii
just looked up WA, its around 4 times bigger than texas... lol
CavemanOfImgur
I get what you're saying and all...but the original post compared Texas to multiple countires
JamesProton
But that's because countries would be assumed to be bigger than states, so the original post is showing off how big Texas/small Europe is
SuperSupply
They're both countries.
Baconthief1994
Except they were doing that to Texas and European countries a little before that
ImOutsideAllGroups
*Continent
abion47
*Country *Continent *Country *Continent *Country *Continent
thepatioheater
But they were also comparing a number of smaller countries to Texas. I forget my point, but the whole thing is... something.
tangybreath
But that comparison is even more impressive
thepatioheater
True. True.
LazySolano
Why are they using Texas????? Alaska is the better state, it makes Texas it's lil Bitch
archiebunk
The better state? You don't even have a Whataburger!!!
LazySolano
Oh Christ you Texans and your whataburger. That shit is mediocre. Texas don't even have a mosses tooth.
archiebunk
Our teeth are pretty good. Maybe only 25 per person average. Never Mossy though, with all that Fluoride in our water ya know.
LazySolano
Hahahah good comment. Moose's tooth is a bomb ass pizza joint in Alaska that is literally Ecstasy in yo mutha fucking mouth
archiebunk
What city. Good pizza is a life source. Made a trip to Chicago a couple of years ago for the pizza and Bob Dylan concert. Both were great!
GNiko
That's a Mercator projection: Canada isn't that much bigger than Australia (7.7M sqm vs 10M sqm).
AlrightKeepYourSecrets
Not to mention most of Nunavut doesn't really count.
Trollingstoned
You're thinking of square kilometers. Canada is about 9.9 of them.
CowboyZ
Texas is 700K sq/km. So take Australia and add 3.3 Texas' to it and you have Canada. So yeah, Canada is still quite a bit bigger than Oz.
pleonidas
NEEEEEERRRRRRRDDDDDDDDD!!!!!
Cisforstupidthatsgoodenoughforme
As a Kremer, I apologize for the antics of my ancestor.
Angaram
Everytime this comaprison is posted there is someone who mentions Mercator, Thanks.
LargeHoman
That's still a third bigger. Canada is pretty large.
cominginhot
yea Canada you're such a disappointment
AlrightKeepYourSecrets
Sorry....
CanduReactor
OlRockTheGoodAg
Speaking as a GIS analyst: Thank you.
Swimbeast
That's really cool! I just started a class all about GIS. It's been really interesting so far. Where do you work if you don't mind?
GenericStormtrooper
You analyse GIS?
DescriptionIsLooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
GIS as in Jif right?
ThePretentiousPear
It's pronounced jizz
ButterfaceTaintClown
And how do you pronounce gif?
GenericStormtrooper
Gif
ignimbrite
GIS as in Geographical Information Systems
kmikl
No one does that any more. GIS as in George Is Silly.
Beepity
Well you'd think so, but it actually stands for Google Image Search.
ignimbrite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system
Ahalla71
Yay! Someone that understands chart projections. As a mariner, this makes me happy.
BlueStringsAttached
Thank you.
BlubberwhaleBumbersplat
And Russia is 19M sqm. Why nobody would notice that it's almost twice as big as Canada?
vexxed14
Only when one measures surface water
Chryos
Are you sure you're not thinking the old Soviet Union? Because I'm not seeing that much territory claimed by Russia.
BlubberwhaleBumbersplat
Hm.. Google's answer for How large is Russia is 17.1 million km² vs 9.9 for Canada. I had 19 in mind. Wikipedia also says 17 without Crimea
movethebongos
Speaking as a mathematician 2.3 sqm is pretty fucking big.
TitaniumMonkeyBalls
It's at least Greenland or Saudi Arabia big
Isthe4thtimethecharm
Almost 30% bigger.
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
Yeah but that image is closer to 100% bigger.
BaloneyBob
Speaking out my ass, wait....what?
movethebongos
Goddamnit it... Forgot the M. Down voting myself for that.
ritsbits808
You could just edit it lol
movethebongos
Don't know how on ios