#2489: Bad Map Projection: The Greenland Special

XKCD comic, described below.
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Bad Map Projection #299:

The Greenland Special

Equal-area map preserves size everywhere except Greenland, which uses the Mercator projection.

[A drawn world map, perhaps the Tobler hyperelliptical projection, except for Greenland which is of a typical Mercator appearance and sized at almost the size of Africa, to almost entirely fill the space between Canada and Iceland. It extends up well beyond the nominal location of the North Pole, while its southern tip has an apparent latitude comparable to that of Spain or the vicinity of Virginia.]


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

The projection for those who think the Mercator projection gives people a distorted idea of how big Greenland is, but a very accurate idea of how big it SHOULD be.

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