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Visualization of Mercator distortion
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This is a 5000km circle centered around Paris.
Found here: https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=924622615693114&id=100044361527327&set=a.610868297068549
But even then it looks like Greenland is still larger than Australia. Is that true?
No
The map is just the mercator projection, but it's showing a circle to show how distorted it is. If this was shown on a globe. The circle would look like a circle and greenland would look much smaller