@The Engineer Guy Iceland is called Iceland because it has way more glaciers than Scandinavia, the origin of all Icelanders. Greenland is called Greenland because the viking, who discovered it, landed in the south, where it is not so icy. Also, he wanted to make some advertisement for Greenland.
@@_kitaes_ Australia isn't a continent. It is an island, which is part of the continent of Oceania, just like how Asia includes islands like Java or siri lanka.
One other thing about the Mercator projection, and many others, for that matter, is that it makes it too easy to think of east and west as being on opposite ends of a map, when the reality is that east and west are not points on a map, but directions that go completely around without a fixed start or end. The US is closer to Russia (via Alaska and the Behring Straight) than it is to Cuba, which is not something you can easily appreciate in most flat maps..
I remember my science teacher telling me about this whilst we were all procrastinating and ever since then I wanted to know why. Thanks for this video!
Because the "racist" Europeans wanted to give the impression that the northern countries was bigger than the southern countries making them seem more important. Facts.
@@patrickwooler1194 As a Brazilian (fucked by the mercator map) I wouldn't call them racist, they were just insecure about their little penises and needed to compensate it
@yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg bro you dont even know what you're talking about. Usa for example is way more ravist than brazil, like black people and white people are literally the same in brazil they dont talk different they dont act different, not to mention most of brazilian people are brown so racism cant really exist here
The only thing that is bad is that have is supposed to be has. That's pretty interesting though. A fun fact about where I'm from (New Jersey, USA) is that 1) this state has 9 million people, making it 11th most populated despite the fact that it's the fifth smallest state 2) NJ is a peninsula. The only state it's connected to by land is New York 3) NJ is 8,729 mi² (22,610 km²)
Bidilz Gaming is it a major city? If so, that's completely normal. NJ is overpopulated in certain areas and in some cities, people don't even have driveways because of how crowded the houses are. I can't even imagine that
Buy an old fashionded globe model and use it when looking up countries. Boomers like me had those as a kid. It helps a lot for getting a grasp on relative country sizes.
I live in Denmark and i remember our classrooms in elementary and primary school had this Mercator map 9-10 years ago. I don't know if we still have them, but wow few years ago when I found out about the true sizes of the areas I became forever pissed off especially since Greenland and Antarctica are ridiculous distorted
5:20 as an ecuadorean this feels comforting, since in the maps we seem tiny, and although we're still a small country it puts things into a better perspective!
Always remember the USA includes the state of Alaska (and Hawaii) -- not just the "continental US" which has 48 states. Alaska is so far north that its true size is also distorted like Greenland. But still, that one state represents about 20% of the landmass of the USA.
I just noticed that when you use google maps (which uses the mercator projection), the same space that covers up 100 km in Antarctica becomes 500 km in Africa which sums up what you explained in the video. However I never noticed this (or never thought about it) until now
I'm curious, do you guys move about the country much, or does everyone mostly stick to their own island? I'm guessing there must be a class dimension to it, the wealthy get about more, but what does that mean for sense of identity among the working class and villagers?
When iam a child i think greenland is a continent and when my teacher didnt mention greenland as continent i really confused i say it was as big as africa. Well i was fooled
You mean Baffin Island connected to the Canadian mainland, not Greenland. Baffin Island is a part of the Territory of Nunavut, just not connected to the mainland.
@Benosoar -- Wow, you know, I don't think it would be that hard to invade and conquer Greenland. Is it very well defended by the Danes? Doubtful. And then would Denmark launch a counter-offensive to get it back? Doubtful. So then Canada could have a new Arctic territory. Great idea!
hhh Bn What is it to you ? All he said that the uploader’s work is being appreciated by Indians I don’t see anything wrong with that What’s the need to go all the way to say that ?
@@gintoki9986 there's nothing wrong it's just annoying to see "love from India" on every comment section and for example not everyone from the US says love from US if everyone from every country says "love from my country" the comment section would get filled up. Also it is irrelevant to the video
I remember my (comunist) geography teacher in high scool telling me that this distortion was a imperialistic attempt to smear the 3rd world countries (we still use that name when I was in high school!)
Eae mano, eu não sabia que você era de portugal ou do brasil, massa saber que temos pessoas tão boas no ingles que demorei para perceber que você era de origem portuguesa.
Thank you so much for this I literally never understood how tf this worked. I thought when people say the countries are smaller than they really are, they they meant they’re smaller in land than what we think. Makes so much more sense now lol
@@alienguy-kazmikompany1286 That is incorrect. The first European Colonialism happened in the early 1600s but by that time Europe was already much more advanced than the rest of the world. Yes, middle east, China, Korea and Japan had advanced agriculture, war tactics, art and culture but technology and industry was far behind Europe perhaps by as much as 300 years behind. Colonialism did lead to the advancement of the world and pulling out of primitive life that none of us here would want to experience. Colonialism was not all bad as people make it out to be, yes it was wrong to use resources of other countries and the slave trade but it also resulted in the world advancing faster than ever before to the modern era of today. If colonialism didn't happen much of the world would still be living in very primitive life without modern life we all cannot live without. I would not want to live my life in a small hut with no modern advancements!! I personally rather not be alive and live like that.
@@drscopeify don’t idolize your people too much, Europe only more advance than elsewhere last 500 years, before that it’s nothing, also not all Europe were advance, only some. Most of knowledge came from other civilizations to make up the world today. Yes, today Europe is rich and have a lot of money (but not all), but fun fact the paper money you use today was invented in China, also the US played big role to recover Western Europe after WW2. The reason Europe got ahead of the world 500 years ago is because they are the only reason the Mongol empire didn’t reach.
@@trilocnguyen3822 Almost every aspect of life you enjoy came from the west. Simple as that, I am not western myself I was born in the USSR, keep that in mind. I do not idolize anything or anyone, I just tell the truth. I think people that idolize someone else are not going in the right direction in life, if you want to make the world a better place you need to lead, not follow others. The Mongol empire did not advance society other than a few weapons advancements but that is about it, lack of any structure even basic things like lack of art and literature which probably why they had no issue burning the world's most important collection of books and written material in Baghdad. Erasing from Humanity thousands of years of knowledge and art without any care in the world, they were very barbaric.
Hey,I noticed that the map your using is in portuguese,and in the video that you made about if all states of Brazil become independent,your pronounce was pretty good,ara you brazilian or portuguese?
The shortest route for a ship or aircraft is a great circle route. Great circles plot as straight lines on a globe or a gnomonic projection and as a curve on a Mercator projection. The straight line course on a Mercator projection is known as a Rhumb line. This is an approximation of a great circle and is close enough for short distances and at lower latitudes.
If you superimposed Brazil over Europe with the westernmost point on London, the northernmost point would be in Sweden north of the Arctic Circle, the southernmost point would be near Cairo, Egypt, and the easternmost point would be in Kazakhstan.
The legend goes that Mercator had a small ding dong. So he invented a projection that would make it look bigger when drawing it at the high latitude where he lived. The rest is history.
Did you know 1 : In Mercator's time it was fashionable to latin-ify your name. He was actually called Gerry Kramer! Did you know 2 : The whole point of Mercator's projection was to enable sailors to accurately plot a course, from one place to the next, by measuring it directly on the map!
Mercator projection really gives a wonky impression of the shape of Canada. The arctic archipelago looks absolutely HUGE on Mercator projections (same issue as Greenland) while the populated southern parts near the US don't seem that big. It gives a total funhouse mirror image of the country (which is very close in actual size to the USA and China, or around 20-25% large than Brazil and Australia). We're a big country but we're not half gigantic tundra covered islands up in the arctic.
Proofing that a country, an entirely human made entity is about as important as its, well... humans. That´s why geographically gigantic but thinly populated and unproductive Angola is far less important then the tiny but densely populated and very productive Netherlands.
@Rusty we colonized a lot and thus influenced many countries that exist today, we invented new types of ships that changed the way everybody travelled, we had a earlier but the same version of the Declaration of Independence, we had a trading company that everyone wanted to join, we had many famous explorers and captains such as the Ruyter and Jan Pieterszoon Coen... Do I have to continue son?
Would you want to see a full video on the different type of Map Projections there are? Comparing each of them, etc.
Si (sorry for my bad english)
That would be cool
Are you Portuguese? Your pronunciation is very good and you use Portuguese maps
True are you Portuguese?
@@GrainMuncher I think yes, sir!
If you put Greenland in equator it will melt
Seth mark Sanchez it already is
Lol did i just read this while the video is on the greenland part
Lol. Why I scrolling down my screen & read this?
that's a good one lol
It would become green!
**Greenland has left the chat**
Singsong Sou subscribe to my channel thanks
I'm sure all ten people there will understand.
@@BeastRealDeal no idiot
@Noob 70 *put asterisks (*) on each side of the part you want bold*
*Rip This chat*
So a globe 🌎 is the best way to see the maps in its correct area.
Yup
what?
always has been
Because the actual Earth is also a sphere, like a globe.
@@atara.sx- the earth is not a perfect sphere but a geoid or elliptical sphere.
The Mercator projection! Brought to you by: GREENLAND!
Yeah coz greenland looks absolutely gargantuan up there but actually is smaller than the drc
@The Engineer Guy Iceland is called Iceland because it has way more glaciers than Scandinavia, the origin of all Icelanders.
Greenland is called Greenland because the viking, who discovered it, landed in the south, where it is not so icy. Also, he wanted to make some advertisement for Greenland.
@The Engineer Guy it's a trick made by a man just to escape a crime he did, that is what my teacher said :/
@Smalls probably XD
0:55
If you want a completely accurate map, just use a globe.
powerful words!
A globe isn't a map though
@@kapybara8079 he's talking about the little globes
@@serglian8558 it's still not a map •~•
@@kapybara8079 he didnt even say that its a map he just said to use it
@@vaukrompir6136 He still used the word map, not that it is a big deal...it isn't
Greenland: I'm bigger than Australia.
Australia: No you're not. look at the globe.
Greenland: [Cries]
Antarctica isn’t that small, it’s bigger than the us or Canada.
Antarctica is only smaller than Russia
@@1mol831 Australia
@@jaydenprogamer_main_channe8123 Australia
@@_kitaes_ Australia isn't a continent. It is an island, which is part of the continent of Oceania, just like how Asia includes islands like Java or siri lanka.
*Puts Africa in antartica, and it freezes*
*Puts Antartica to Africa, and it melts.*
Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
I bless the snows down in Africa!
African-Antarticans
@@gojira4036 they will be easily seen in the snow
Im taking about the Africans
@@imcloud305 that’s because there dark
And now antartica melt even if you didnt move it
Wait, are you Portuguese/Brazilian? The names of the countries in the map are in portuguese
Pedro Calais I bet he is Portuguese
His first flag video was about Portugal too
Sim, ele é tuga.
His first three videos of his channel are about Portugal, Spain and Brazil. So I think he's Portuguese.
@@rapnoc4158 ah
One other thing about the Mercator projection, and many others, for that matter, is that it makes it too easy to think of east and west as being on opposite ends of a map, when the reality is that east and west are not points on a map, but directions that go completely around without a fixed start or end. The US is closer to Russia (via Alaska and the Behring Straight) than it is to Cuba, which is not something you can easily appreciate in most flat maps..
That's why you need to grow up playing Risk like we did in the 70s - because then you KNOW Kamchatka and Alaska are "connected". 😁
-Put Monaco on the North Pole-
Monaco may be quite large, they are the size of two thirds of Indonesia (the flag).
Petar Mitkov you mean the Vatican
@Lefty Bear Gaming it will be the size of the falklands
I tried it on true size and I forgot where it went
Bruh
4:21 Romania should be an island, it looks like a small fish in the Ocean, it would fit right in
A small fish in a big slavic sea
Transylvania NO romania ! So it doesn't look like a fish .!.
@@taylerszente6877 no, you are right, Romania shouldn't look like a fish, but you misspelled "Moldova" by saying "Transylvania"
Looks like Dory
Tayler Szente Tayler Szente why when majority of Transylvania is Romanian not minority? So it looks like fish
Everyone : Why I'm smaller?
Brazil : Is that my business
You are going to brazil
come to Brazil, pls?
Russia: we good🤠
I wish my penis was displaced on the south side of the map 😒😒😫😫
I remember my science teacher telling me about this whilst we were all procrastinating and ever since then I wanted to know why. Thanks for this video!
Why so much pain!!
when you have Google...
Vgg
My teacher told me it was because the map makers were racist. No joke
Because the "racist" Europeans wanted to give the impression that the northern countries was bigger than the southern countries making them seem more important. Facts.
@@patrickwooler1194
As a Brazilian (fucked by the mercator map) I wouldn't call them racist, they were just insecure about their little penises and needed to compensate it
3:55 Demark doesn’t exist
Actually isorrowproductions doesnt exist.
Its still there, its just hard to see
Play Coolmathgames
Circle tool
Well, Greenland is part of Denmark, so that adds to its size.
Of course it's possible to present a spherical object in 2D without distortion. It's just not possible to present it all at once without distortion.
*[Puts Antarctica at the Equator]*
Dead Noah: *_THE SECOND GREAT FLOOD!!!_*
Dead noah: my grandson time has come
Ra Alf grandson.... more like great great great great great great great x10000000000 grandson
2:57 “...three or four USs”
*forgets about Alaska or Hawaii*
@Fmono • 38 years ago Still part of america
@Fmono • 38 years ago maybe they should be included?
*facepalm*
@Yuki You no, it doesn count in the scale, because its not connected to america
Fmono • 39 years ago • edited Guam and them aren’t states. That’s not the same thing, and I don’t believe that’s what op was saying.
It's so good to see a Brazilian guy doing such a good content! Congrats!
Ele é português não brasileiro
Continua sendo muito bom
@Antonio Ceccon is this a joke
@yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg bro you dont even know what you're talking about. Usa for example is way more ravist than brazil, like black people and white people are literally the same in brazil they dont talk different they dont act different, not to mention most of brazilian people are brown so racism cant really exist here
little did they know he's portuguese
5:58 Fun fact: Poland is bigger than UK. Poland has [about] 312.000 square kilometers, but UK has [about] 242.000 square kilometers.
Your english is pretty good though
The only thing that is bad is that have is supposed to be has. That's pretty interesting though. A fun fact about where I'm from (New Jersey, USA) is that
1) this state has 9 million people, making it 11th most populated despite the fact that it's the fifth smallest state
2) NJ is a peninsula. The only state it's connected to by land is New York
3) NJ is 8,729 mi² (22,610 km²)
@@julsiegamermove4115 lmao jakarta has more people than nj but jakarta is small
Bidilz Gaming is it a major city? If so, that's completely normal. NJ is overpopulated in certain areas and in some cities, people don't even have driveways because of how crowded the houses are. I can't even imagine that
MarkeeGamerMove New York best.
I've always "kinda" understood this concept but you really helped me visualize it. This was excellent.
this video is so inaccurate on so many levels..
Mejia u right
@@miguelmejia4656 and how is that so
@@miguelmejia4656 Would you explain your statement?
Buy an old fashionded globe model and use it when looking up countries. Boomers like me had those as a kid. It helps a lot for getting a grasp on relative country sizes.
Goggle maps will show it properly, make sure it is set to 'globe'..
Are you Portuguese or Brazilian? The maps aren't in english, they are in portuguese
Oooh, I didn’t notice that.
He is Portuguese.
Countries that use portuguese not only brazil and portugal
Português Portugal
@@rnvyh5998 he is from Portugal u don't see any portuguese country talking like this👍 he is clearly PORTUGUESE FORM PORTUGAL
Greenland in Mercator Pregection : You're Weak!
Greenland in Reality : I'm You!
3:54 Romania represent! Be honest, you chose it because it has the shape of a fish. I don't blame ya, I also like that shape.
Yeah
Romania don't have a shape of a fish
@@pclsh9106 It actually does
I like that, it looks like the state of Paraná in Brazil
In 1914 it wasn't a fish, *how did this happen*
Thank u for talking about my country #Romania
a pe cimpoi a pe cimpoi
yes ily bro
sandu ciorba
#Bulgaria
Si eu sunt roman
My kiddo and I had so much fun learning from this. Thank you!
Are you Portuguese? You always use Portuguese maps, and your pronunciation is really good
He is Portuguese because a Brazilian would make the "ç" sound while speaking
Fake chinese comment
Dragoncam13 what do you mean by ç sound?
@@josuegabriel8066 when you hear some Brazilians speak you keeo hearing a S sound(essentially the same thing)
@@Dragoncam13 It depends a lot from the region of Brazil you're talking about
1:25 I was literally peeling an orange then
@@runator3250 eating Oranges is boomer now?
So jel
I live in Denmark and i remember our classrooms in elementary and primary school had this Mercator map 9-10 years ago. I don't know if we still have them, but wow few years ago when I found out about the true sizes of the areas I became forever pissed off especially since Greenland and Antarctica are ridiculous distorted
2:06 But the white color on top of blue Russia color is already there! Why you coloring it white again?
He isn't actually colouring the flag. Most likely a computer doing it.
It's an animation
the first coat was a primer coat duh
If you are asking that, why are you not asking "How did he colour the entire map with only one pencil?"...
Come on guys, pretty sure it was a joke...
Mind blowing ! Keep rocking bro !
When I was in school few years ago, I looked at the map in the library. I was like "How on Earth is Greenland slightly bigger than an entire Africa?"
4:07 I like 'em big, I like 'em chunky
lol
5:20 as an ecuadorean this feels comforting, since in the maps we seem tiny, and although we're still a small country it puts things into a better perspective!
Wow, if Ecuador was a US state, it would be the 8th largest!
3:08
Antartica: Am I a joke to you?
Always remember the USA includes the state of Alaska (and Hawaii) -- not just the "continental US" which has 48 states. Alaska is so far north that its true size is also distorted like Greenland. But still, that one state represents about 20% of the landmass of the USA.
Alaska and Hawai are not getting requisite attention should seek freedom
@@rups5330 Haha.. Only your opinion
I wish my penis was displaced on the south side of the map 😒😒😫😫
I just noticed that when you use google maps (which uses the mercator projection), the same space that covers up 100 km in Antarctica becomes 500 km in Africa which sums up what you explained in the video. However I never noticed this (or never thought about it) until now
If we put greenland in africa then
Every 60 seconds in greenland; a minute would pass
Gerardus Mercator must have lived in Greenland...
*Brings Russia closer to Equator*
*Compares it to Mercator Projected USA*
but US lies close to the equator which means us size is somewhat accurate
@@s4stats698US doesn't even have the tropic of cancer passing through it, how is it close to the equator?
@@x2elon compared to russia, US mainland is closer to equator.
Yeah but only below Tennessee which is still a lot but usa is nowhere as accurate on Mercator projection as compared to its real size
Loved the video.
I love geography, and I also think that the map we use should be replaced for a more realistic and accurate proportions.
If you put Indonesia in Europe, it will stretch from London to Teheran, Iran......
Greeting from Indonesia👍👍👌
actually then i putted it in London it streched to a place in Kazakhstan called Amangeldy
it can also reach dubai.
Indonesia is even not that big ughh
@@RyanTaylor2000 it is kontol
I'm curious, do you guys move about the country much, or does everyone mostly stick to their own island? I'm guessing there must be a class dimension to it, the wealthy get about more, but what does that mean for sense of identity among the working class and villagers?
When iam a child i think greenland is a continent and when my teacher didnt mention greenland as continent i really confused i say it was as big as africa. Well i was fooled
FUN FACT: you could fit EVERY country on earth and still have room to spare
Why is Nunavut connected to Greenland at 0:07
Alternate universe
You mean Baffin Island connected to the Canadian mainland, not Greenland. Baffin Island is a part of the Territory of Nunavut, just not connected to the mainland.
@Benosoar -- Wow, you know, I don't think it would be that hard to invade and conquer Greenland. Is it very well defended by the Danes? Doubtful. And then would Denmark launch a counter-offensive to get it back? Doubtful. So then Canada could have a new Arctic territory. Great idea!
@@markmh835 wooshh
@@iskandarazdi9092 😑😑😑😑
2 maps.
1 for sailing, one for land mass representation.
Is it really that hard these days?
This is the most educational and interesting video I've watched in ages 🎉
0:04 What's that peninsula next to Florida, I've never seen it on any other map?
that one dude that comment stuff maybe Louisiana but you could barely tell on a world map...
Yep Louisiana
Whoever drew this map did it with a pencil in his arse
It's Jeffrey Epstein's "Fuck peninsula."
1:58 I often use the true size of map website and it’s so fun to compare all the maps
I love these maps. Always very informative and eye opening.
Great work, love from India
Waiting for racist comments...
What's the need to tell everyone you're Indian? lol
hhh Bn
What is it to you ?
All he said that the uploader’s work is being appreciated by Indians
I don’t see anything wrong with that
What’s the need to go all the way to say that ?
It doesn't matter where your from. That info is irrelevant.
@@gintoki9986 there's nothing wrong it's just annoying to see "love from India" on every comment section and for example not everyone from the US says love from US if everyone from every country says "love from my country" the comment section would get filled up. Also it is irrelevant to the video
I remember my (comunist) geography teacher in high scool telling me that this distortion was a imperialistic attempt to smear the 3rd world countries (we still use that name when I was in high school!)
but soviet union is communist...
@@wakakabravo7998 yes, but she was talking about the XVI century imperialism.
Yeah I was told about the same thing
I was told it was to make Europe look as big and so very powerful
And Eurocentric
Well she was not wrong entirely as they do the same today
greenland was 3rd world though
Superbly explained - Keep it up!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Romania is here!
Isn't PSD too?
Omg Imma cry after dis joke :(
fuck you
@@expiredmilk8740 DON'T BE F**KING RUDE!!!!
Ewwwwwwww a gacha noob GET OUT OF MY FACE EWWWWWWWW
Eae mano, eu não sabia que você era de portugal ou do brasil, massa saber que temos pessoas tão boas no ingles que demorei para perceber que você era de origem portuguesa.
Português mas vive na Inglaterra pelo sotaque
Ele n e brasileiro ou português acho
@@pclsh9106 é português ele disse num dos primeiros vídeos
Thank you for the tutorial for mapping on mobile
I wish my penis was displaced on the south side of the map 😒😒😫😫
Very nice content! Tks!
Thank you so much for this I literally never understood how tf this worked. I thought when people say the countries are smaller than they really are, they they meant they’re smaller in land than what we think. Makes so much more sense now lol
5:35 his voice I was like : O_o
i love your videos!! thank you for being so informative.
How come when you were going over us states you forgot Alaska? I was very curious to see its relative size to continental US
Go small Europe 💪😁
@@motoristacaduco ahem colonialism ahem
@@alienguy-kazmikompany1286 That is incorrect. The first European Colonialism happened in the early 1600s but by that time Europe was already much more advanced than the rest of the world. Yes, middle east, China, Korea and Japan had advanced agriculture, war tactics, art and culture but technology and industry was far behind Europe perhaps by as much as 300 years behind. Colonialism did lead to the advancement of the world and pulling out of primitive life that none of us here would want to experience. Colonialism was not all bad as people make it out to be, yes it was wrong to use resources of other countries and the slave trade but it also resulted in the world advancing faster than ever before to the modern era of today. If colonialism didn't happen much of the world would still be living in very primitive life without modern life we all cannot live without. I would not want to live my life in a small hut with no modern advancements!! I personally rather not be alive and live like that.
@@drscopeify don’t idolize your people too much, Europe only more advance than elsewhere last 500 years, before that it’s nothing, also not all Europe were advance, only some. Most of knowledge came from other civilizations to make up the world today. Yes, today Europe is rich and have a lot of money (but not all), but fun fact the paper money you use today was invented in China, also the US played big role to recover Western Europe after WW2. The reason Europe got ahead of the world 500 years ago is because they are the only reason the Mongol empire didn’t reach.
@@trilocnguyen3822 Almost every aspect of life you enjoy came from the west. Simple as that, I am not western myself I was born in the USSR, keep that in mind. I do not idolize anything or anyone, I just tell the truth. I think people that idolize someone else are not going in the right direction in life, if you want to make the world a better place you need to lead, not follow others. The Mongol empire did not advance society other than a few weapons advancements but that is about it, lack of any structure even basic things like lack of art and literature which probably why they had no issue burning the world's most important collection of books and written material in Baghdad. Erasing from Humanity thousands of years of knowledge and art without any care in the world, they were very barbaric.
Hey,I noticed that the map your using is in portuguese,and in the video that you made about if all states of Brazil become independent,your pronounce was pretty good,ara you brazilian or portuguese?
😕 Isso não mudará muito as coisas.
- Portugal não é Brasil, assim como Reino Unido não é Estados Unidos.
"Australia the country"
Proceeds to draw Oceania
Now I understand why Indonesian domestic flights are more expensive than international flights -_-
The shortest route for a ship or aircraft is a great circle route. Great circles plot as straight lines on a globe or a gnomonic projection and as a curve on a Mercator projection. The straight line course on a Mercator projection is known as a Rhumb line. This is an approximation of a great circle and is close enough for short distances and at lower latitudes.
Great stuff and very interesting.
Being someone who lives in Texas I had no idea the UK was only about half the size of the state.
Fun fact: you guys are also bigger than Ukraine, the second largest country in Europe (After Russia of Course). Greetings from California.
You sound like you’re shivering or about to cry throughout this whole video lol
Don’t get me wrong, great content
If you superimposed Brazil over Europe with the westernmost point on London, the northernmost point would be in Sweden north of the Arctic Circle, the southernmost point would be near Cairo, Egypt, and the easternmost point would be in Kazakhstan.
This is actually one of the reasons why I say, "If you feel cramped in your country, move."
0:05 I haven't seen a map like this in 15+ years. Basically every map since the mid-2000's has been scaled correctly, and people know when it isn't.
Very interessting!! And to this detail new for me. Thank you for that!!
Please make a video on Oman please
-yesmen- yemen!
I see that your maps are in portuguese, are you portuguese or brazilian?
Portuguese
i also see it
but isn't it strange?
@@RodrigoFerreira-cz8td neah... I think that he is american with Romanian heritage ;)
@@v4l3nt1nn you are really wrong his maps are portugese so he is american with portugese heritage
He's Portuguese , a Brazilian would be making the "ç" sound while speaking
Really great information 👍 Thanks 😊
Does Trump think Greenland is a lot bigger than it actually is ?
I think we could all bet our houses on the fact that he does
🇧🇷 Pra quem veio pelo Brasil: 🇧🇷
6:57
@fjf sjdnx What? We're called Brazil, the Ecuador is another country
The legend goes that Mercator had a small ding dong. So he invented a projection that would make it look bigger when drawing it at the high latitude where he lived.
The rest is history.
This is why Alaska seems bigger than India
@Fmono • 38 years ago Please go back to school and don't forget to graduate 😐😐😐😐😐
@Flabitition Efal Amen!!!!
@Flabitition Efal Anyone can say Amen even Atheist
@Flabitition Efal I was only agreeing with you on your comment about India
Very informative video kudos to the creator of this content
Me: "Thanks Geography Now ..... oh wait"
Did you know 1 : In Mercator's time it was fashionable to latin-ify your name. He was actually called Gerry Kramer!
Did you know 2 : The whole point of Mercator's projection was to enable sailors to accurately plot a course, from one place to the next, by measuring it directly on the map!
Great to see some of these comments know what they are talking about.
Latinise/Latinize*
Some maps are very accurate for what they were designed to convey, but not what some people want to from them.
Mercator projection really gives a wonky impression of the shape of Canada. The arctic archipelago looks absolutely HUGE on Mercator projections (same issue as Greenland) while the populated southern parts near the US don't seem that big. It gives a total funhouse mirror image of the country (which is very close in actual size to the USA and China, or around 20-25% large than Brazil and Australia). We're a big country but we're not half gigantic tundra covered islands up in the arctic.
So basically your saying earth is a smol birb
This was absolutely the best explanation video to me.
so, africa and india are much bigger than what it look in map
Not just Africa or india. All countries near the equator looks smaller like PNG, Mexico, Australia, Philippines, Indonesia etc.
Brazil is bigger than united states, not counting alaska.
If you remove 17% of the land sure
I showed this website to my class when I was in 3rd grade and they loved it so much
When was that?
@@briangarcia7384 2004
0:09 WTF happened to all the islands??
They 💀 And 😇 later
And black sea
And Caspian sea
And italy is crushed like an empty bottle
Europe melts down the map
7:00 Brazil is so big!
Your accent makes this video great more authentic. I was a SS teacher and you would make a great middle school teacher.
Seu mapa é em português, de onde vc é?
Amo amo seu canal
Ele é português, se não me engano
0:00 Wow,he’s so good at drawing World map, but so poor at drawing Japan!
And also Sumatera, Java, and Malay Peninsula
Cry about it, weeb
Awesome vid, i,ve been lied to all my life and I,m 50 now,thankyou for posting,Best wishes to you, from, Auckland, New Zealand.
0:03 why are Greenland and Ellesmere connected
Amazing how a country like the Netherlands that isn't really that big in size has to offer so much
Proofing that a country, an entirely human made entity is about as important as its, well... humans. That´s why geographically gigantic but thinly populated and unproductive Angola is far less important then the tiny but densely populated and very productive Netherlands.
@@jakobbrenner3820 hell yeah I love my country!
@Rusty that, and many more things that completely changed the world around it
@Rusty we colonized a lot and thus influenced many countries that exist today, we invented new types of ships that changed the way everybody travelled, we had a earlier but the same version of the Declaration of Independence, we had a trading company that everyone wanted to join, we had many famous explorers and captains such as the Ruyter and Jan Pieterszoon Coen... Do I have to continue son?
@Rusty lol
This is why I like the winkel triple projection, it is still not 100% perfect, but it's is way better than the marcator projection
map in Portuguese, bom trabalho xD
Eu percebi
Gosto muito!!!!
Né kkkkk
4:25 a Red Star and a Bear?
*i think i've seen this before, like 1990 before*