2025-01-09 21:38 UTC
4/ Greenland 🇬🇱 is big, but probably not as big as you think.
Most map projections, including the widely used Mercator projection, distort the size of land near the poles. As a result Greenland looks much bigger than it actually is.
A great tool for visually comparing the true size of countries is ...
thetruesize.com
https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTU4OTkwMjY.MzI5ODM3MA*Mjc0NzA4MTY(OTk4MTYw~!GL*OTU3NzIwNQ.NTQ3MjY0)Mw
As this Dymaxion projection shows Greenland is "only" the 11th largest country.
#geoweirdness
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@opencage@en.osm.town 2025-01-09 21:38
5/ In 2022 came the exciting geographic news of the new Canada 🇨🇦 / Greenland 🇬🇱 land border, when it was agreed to divide remote, uninhabited Hans Island. This marked the end of the long-running and delightful "Whiskey War" in which the two sides left bottles of alcohol 🍾 for each other while taking down the other side's flag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/80.82640/-66.45874 #geoweirdness