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Countries that are larger than the Vatican

::: spoiler Transcription 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. :::

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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

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

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

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lemmy.ca

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

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