Comment by Byvrsakjo10
2 hours ago
I agree cartography has always been challenging itself, it is possible the size of most nations have been miscalculated.
2 hours ago
I agree cartography has always been challenging itself, it is possible the size of most nations have been miscalculated.
> it is possible the size of most nations have been miscalculated
Huh? Are you a Flat Earth believer? We can literally see the countries from space. The problem wasn't that we don't know how big they are but that, as your parent explains, it is not possible to have a flat map which accurately depicts a (roughly) spherical terrain. A flat map has to be "wrong" in some sense and this change picks a map which made a trade off that favours accurate size (e.g. ratio between size of Greenland and Africa)