What is the website that lets you compare country sizes?

MapFight – Compare the size of countries, regions and cities.

How do you compare two countries?

Some of the most popular indicators that are used to compare different countries in the world are Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Per Capita Income, Human Development Index etc….Human Development Index (HDI)

Education levels of people.
Per Capita Income.
Health Status.

What map shows the true size of countries?

The Mercator Map Projection
The Mercator Map Projection with the true size and shape of the country overlaid. One of the best known and commonly used world maps, the Mercator Projection, depicts Greenland and Africa as being roughly the same size.

How maps distort the real country sizes?

But despite its ubiquity, the Mercator projection does not accurately reflect the true size of countries given the impossibility of representing a 3D object on a 2D surface. In fact, the projection distorts the size of objects as the latitude increases from the equator to the poles, where the scale becomes infinite.

What country is the same size as Greenland?

As we can see in Fig. 1, Greenland is in fact only slightly bigger than Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom together.

Which country has the best shape?

Here are the top 10 countries with the most beautiful shapes.

Italy. Italy.
United Arab Emirates. United Arab Emirates.
Cyprus. Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean, after Sicily and Sardinia.
Chile. Chile.
Greece. Greece.
Russia.
Croatia.
Sri Lanka.

Why do maps lie about size?

World maps are liars. Because they don’t accurately represent the curvature of the Earth, they increasingly exaggerate the size of regions the further they are from the equator. This means tropical nations appear to be smaller than they really are, while the industrialised countries seem bigger.