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A map of the world with the legend Green: Bigger than Vatican, Grey: No data. The entire world is green, except for Greenland and Western Sahara. New Zealand is shaded out so as to not appear at all.

  • ZagorathOP
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    296 days ago

    Top comment on Facebook:

    This is only true when we look at a 2-dimensional map. If we saw it in 3 dimensions we could see that the Vatican reaches all the way to heaven

  • @ikidd
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    166 days ago

    I like the white-out over New Zealand

    • @edgemaster72
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      126 days ago

      wdym? that smudge by Australia? that’s just where the garbage patch is rn

  • @[email protected]
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    55 days ago

    Wow, Mercator projection really does skew the size. I figured for sure that Greenland would be bigger than the Vatican.

  • @[email protected]
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    66 days ago

    How there’s never enough data from Greenland? Are they afraid of surveys? Do they even exist?

    • ZagorathOP
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      136 days ago

      Mainland Denmark has data. Greenland, as with many of these surveys, does not.

    • @expatriado
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      46 days ago

      it’s an old meme sir, it checks out