What else are they teaching in school that isn’t accurate?

The Mercator projection exaggerates areas far from the equator.

Examples of size distortion

• Greenland appears the same size as Africa when in reality Africa’s area is 14 times as large.
  • Greenland’s real area is comparable to the Democratic Republic of the Congo‘s area alone.
  • Africa appears to be roughly the same size as South America when in reality Africa is over one and a half times as large.
• Alaska appears to be the same size as Australia, although Australia is actually 4.5 times as large.
  • Alaska also takes as much area on the map as Brazil, whereas Brazil’s area is nearly 5 times that of Alaska.
• Madagascar and Great Britain look about the same size, while Madagascar is actually more than twice as large as Great Britain.