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Oh yeah, it's the Mercator projection's silliness made visible. Maybe that's why Trump wants Greenland in the first place...
Trump should move the USA up north, so it truly becomes great. Maybe that's why he wants to buy Greenland.
It's hilarious when you slide a country toward one of the poles and it suddenly becomes larger than the entire planet.
They should clip really, but it obviously doesn't become bigger, stuff that's off the map just doesn't count...
Even when knowing about this effect on maps I didn't think Madagascar was larger than Sweden, that's cool!
Oh yeah, it's the Mercator projection's silliness made visible. Maybe that's why Trump wants Greenland in the first place...
It's still massive without distortion.