Someone Compared The Sizes Of 30 Countries To USA With A Real Scale Perspective

For an untrained eye, maps can be a little bit confusing, especially when it comes to comparing sizes. Since Earth is spherical, representing it on a flat map leads to a certain level of distortion. And if you compare different types of maps, you can clearly see that some areas differ in scale - that's because there's no unified method for projection. However, the most common one we recognize is the Mercator projection, suggested by geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator all the way back in 1569. One map lover, going by the name of Mkyner on Imgur decided to compare the sizes of various countries to the United States of America by creating a series of overlapping maps. Looking at the maps, you'll realize just how big the USA is - after all, it's even bigger than Australia! Check out Mkyner's maps in the gallery below! h/t

#1

Image source: thetruesize Population: 23,470,145, and all trying to buy a house in Melbourne it seems

#2

Image source: thetruesize Population: 142,122,776

#3

Image source: thetruesize Population: 4,545,627 people and about 30,000,000 sheep

#4

Image source: thetruesize Population: 208,846,892

#5

Image source: thetruesize Population: 1,296,834,042 Expected to pass China in population within a few years. Stripped bit near Winnipeg is occupied by China.

#6

Image source: thetruesize Population: 262,787,403 More than half the population is on that one island running from northern New Mexico to central Oklahoma. The big island in the upper Great Plains and that thing in the Atlantic are mostly jungle.

#7

Image source: thetruesize Population: 1,384,688,986

#8

Image source: thetruesize Population: 25,683,610 Ports: closed.

#9

Image source: thetruesize Population: 11,570,762

#10

Image source: thetruesize Population: 17,925,262

#11

Image source: thetruesize Population: 1,000 aka Holy See

#12

Image source: thetruesize Population: 4,270,480 One of the coolest-shaped countries, like a Needler from Halo.

#13

Image source: thetruesize Population: 44,694,198

#14

Image source: thetruesize Population: 80,457,737

#15

Image source: thetruesize Population: 38,420,687

#16

Image source: thetruesize Population: 99,413,317

#17

Image source: thetruesize Population: 62,246,674 Giving South Carolina the boot.

#18

Image source: thetruesize Population: 126,168,156 and 1 Godzilla Bullet train will take you from Tokyo, Arkansas to Osaka, Texas in about 2.5hrs

#19

Image source: thetruesize Population: 97,040,334

#20

Image source: thetruesize Population: 343,518

#21

Image source: thetruesize Population: 81,257,239 *Constantinople

#22

Image source: thetruesize Population: 65,105,246

#23

Image source: thetruesize Population: 5,537,364 May or may not exist.

#24

Image source: thetruesize Population: 17,151,228

#25

Image source: thetruesize Population: 5,372,191 aka, Occupied West Sweden

#26

Image source: thetruesize Population: 8,793,370

#27

Image source: thetruesize Population of the country of Georgia: 4,926,087 Population of the US State of Georgia: 10,519,475

#28

Image source: thetruesize Population: 43,952,299 IIRC, the Russian-occupied part in the east is roughly New Jersey, Delaware, and a bit of Pennsylvania

#29

Image source: thetruesize Population: 105,893,381

#30

Image source: thetruesize Population: 10,040,995 That's a lot of vikings.