Answer to Question #140837 in Physical geography for Javier

Physical geography

Question #140837

In reality, Africa is almost 14 times larger than Greenland but in what projection Greenland (the size of Mexico) appears larger than Africa?

Expert's answer

In the Mercator projection because it 'stretches' the objects located near poles of a sphere.

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