True Size
When you look at the northern most and southern most parts of your standard Mercator projection map, you see vast landmasses in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Australia and Russia.
What if I told you Alaska and its great vast frontier was actually no bigger than Colombia? If you are a visual learner, this is a neat tool. Go play this interactive map and discover the true size of many countries.
Look at Russia, which on a normal Mercator map looks like a vast bemouth. But, while still large, its true size is much less than we perceive.
Alaska:
Greenland:
And you can move Delaware up into Greenland and it’s still pretty damn small.