The map doesn't neccesarily lie, it's just that to show a spherical world, the Earth, on a rectangular map, the countries near the equator need to look super small, and the countries furthest from the equator has to look super big, making some countries appear way bigger or way smaller than they actually are.
7:12 - 7:50. Heya Dan, here's the official logistics behind this portion of this video. China is the same size as the USA, making both of them disputedly the 3rd and 4th largest countries in the world (behind Russia in 1st and Canada in 2nd). Though, as you had said, China is in fact larger than Brazil (The 5th largest country) and Australia (The 6th largest country). China, however, does not "dwarf" any of the other Top 5 largest countries, but it is bigger than Brazil and Australia by quite a decent tad. China is however smaller than both Canada and Russia. So China does not "dwarf" every country but Russia. China does "dwarf" most countries that are not in the top 7 biggest countries, though. Hope this helps! 🙂🤝🇨🇦❤
@@Sscc. In this vid he did not include Alaska he only did the contiguous 48 states. With all 50 states Alaska and Hawaii the United States is actually slightly bigger.
there is a way to make a completely accurate map on a rectangular screen but we have to distort the country sizes to make a proper rectangle shape or if we tried to make a map with accurate sizes the map shape would be like if you took a kitkat and bended it without breaking it edit: MAMA IM FAMOUS
uhh Dan-If you drag countries up--They become bigger...drag them to that center line to see their actual size And this happens because it is a square map but the world is round And they "lie" Because they need to show all the countries, but not make the map too big because in acient times people needed to carry maps in their pockets
The reason the world map lies is bcz the earth is round (obviously), and it is not possible to show a round object on something flat without some form of distortion. And on the world map you were using, the form of distortion is that land masses are bigger towards the poles and smaller towards the equator.
The reason map makers make maps look like how they are is to make a spherical world on a flat map, you have to mak everything bigger at the top and bottom way bigger than they actually are.
13 biggest countries: 1. Russia 2. Canada 3. America 4. China 5. Brazil 6. Australia 7. India 8. Argentina 9. Kazakhstan 10. Algeria 11. DRC 12. Denmark 13. Mexico
It’s impossible to portrait a spherical land mass on a flat map without distortion which stretches countries and farther from the equator a country is it makes it look bigger
Here's the answers to your questions: The reason common maps such as the Mercator projection makes countries bigger or smaller than their actual size simply has to do with the fact that the Earth is a globe. You can't have a world map on a 2-dimensional area without some parts being stretched out. This means that the countries in the poles look huge, but the countries near the equator are smaller. The Mercator projection is a map that does this. It's great at retaining shape, but horrible at retaining size. Moral of the story: Use a globe for a world map.
This is why i did a project where I used tracing paper to trace difernt countries, then cut them out and move them around. Some country comparisons even surprised ME. Like, how Finland is about the size of California. Or that Uruguay and Belarus are similar too
The countries are not lying it's that the map is rectangular as the world is round so it makes the things on the top and bottom way bigger then they actually look.
5:00 they have to do this since they are putting stuff that are on something round on a rectangle which means of the country is above the equator it’s bigger then u think and below the equator is smaller then u think
I think it’s because the countries near the equator are more exposed to the light of the sun so they’re smaller. Countries which are far from the equator are bigger because they’re less exposed by the sun
Actually, that map warps countries on where it is, so if you move Canada to the equator, you can see that it has a major difference, where the Canada on the map is larger, and the Canada that is smaller is the true Canada. Because they use the round earth technique to warp countries. So in reality, Australia is smaller than Brazil, and America because it warps countries based on where it is.
Maps are made for navigation. You have a 3D world placed on a flat surface. The equator is fatter than the poles. To make lattitude & longitude line up, the surface area shrinks toward the equator and expands towards the poles. I thought this was common knowledge.
The countries that you chose and put on smaller countries and said the smaller ones are actually bigger but you don’t know cuz you also didn’t make the smaller countries their real side so that means Russia is still bigger than Africa and all the other stuff
Dan map makers and globe makers don’t lie well globe makers don’t because on a map it’s squared but on a globe it’s round so the things on the top and bottom of the map are way bigger then they actually are so the globe is right and there not lying
by the ecuador countries get smaller just like antarctica it gets smaller cuz the ecuador is the middle of the earth and it makes things look smaller then they look. same goes for the middle line going horizontaly around the earth
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Alternate title: Dan having an 8 minute 27 second panic attack because the map has been capping.
This comment shoudve been pinned instead of the one he pinned
What does capping even mean
@@jakezom2389 capping means lying
Can't we just all agree that they HAVE to make it wrong as it's impossible to put a sphere on a square?
Fr tho
They actualy dont lie you just cant take a country from a round map put it on a square one and it will stay the same
True
Rectangle I think you mean
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Thats why globes exist
So true
" There's like a million trillion states their."
Me: There are only 50 states
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Dan: and were gonna do this to every country!
Dan: then proceeds to only do like 10 countries
He can’t do it to every country 🤦♀️ the video is going to be 1029282hours long bro and let’s act like part 2s don’t exist 🙄
The US is around 9.8 million square kilometers, where Australia is only 7.7 million square kilometers
Australia is not really even close to the size of the the United States of America.
Yes it is its the same size to the contiguous 48 states of America but if you but alaska in its definitely bigger
“Australia is almost as big as us!”
“Without Alaska 💀 🗿”
Yes true
The map doesn't neccesarily lie, it's just that to show a spherical world, the Earth, on a rectangular map, the countries near the equator need to look super small, and the countries furthest from the equator has to look super big, making some countries appear way bigger or way smaller than they actually are.
5:24-5:31 oh alright Dan, i understand.
I see
7:12 - 7:50. Heya Dan, here's the official logistics behind this portion of this video. China is the same size as the USA, making both of them disputedly the 3rd and 4th largest countries in the world (behind Russia in 1st and Canada in 2nd). Though, as you had said, China is in fact larger than Brazil (The 5th largest country) and Australia (The 6th largest country). China, however, does not "dwarf" any of the other Top 5 largest countries, but it is bigger than Brazil and Australia by quite a decent tad. China is however smaller than both Canada and Russia. So China does not "dwarf" every country but Russia. China does "dwarf" most countries that are not in the top 7 biggest countries, though. Hope this helps! 🙂🤝🇨🇦❤
USA is bigger than China if you include all of the states
United States is actually slightly bigger
@@DiminishingPepper no it’s not, only if you count territorial waters
@@Sscc. In this vid he did not include Alaska he only did the contiguous 48 states. With all 50 states Alaska and Hawaii the United States is actually slightly bigger.
Dont forget, usa have alaska and hawai.
4:48 it's simple, the earth is round and the map is flat
there is a way to make a completely accurate map on a rectangular screen but we have to distort the country sizes to make a proper rectangle shape or if we tried to make a map with accurate sizes the map shape would be like if you took a kitkat and bended it without breaking it edit: MAMA IM FAMOUS
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uhh Dan-If you drag countries up--They become bigger...drag them to that center line to see their actual size
And this happens because it is a square map but the world is round
And they "lie" Because they need to show all the countries, but not make the map too big because in acient times people needed to carry maps in their pockets
The reason countries are distorted is due to the Mercator projection nobody’s lying
The Merceda projection is what it it is the further a country is from the ecaoder the bigger it looks on the map.
Bro is teaching us way to much geography
I try
lol
"There's a million trillion different states in here" - Jack Woolly, 2023
The reason the world map lies is bcz the earth is round (obviously), and it is not possible to show a round object on something flat without some form of distortion. And on the world map you were using, the form of distortion is that land masses are bigger towards the poles and smaller towards the equator.
They make some countries on the map smaller to fit countries on the map so people know where about the country is
(I'm Canadian) I was just waiting through the whole video for him to pick up Canada. Why not😢😢😭😭
You can fit the entire dwarf planet Pluto into Australia so I mean…
Bro literally said India small💀💀.
The reason why Greenland is so big is bc the map was made around the time. Of Chris Colombia and now it has shrunk
“Apart from looking down my pants” got me dead 💀😂🥲😂💀
The reason map makers make maps look like how they are is to make a spherical world on a flat map, you have to mak everything bigger at the top and bottom way bigger than they actually are.
The stuff at the top is bigger and the stuff at the bottom is bigger to
13 biggest countries:
1. Russia
2. Canada
3. America
4. China
5. Brazil
6. Australia
7. India
8. Argentina
9. Kazakhstan
10. Algeria
11. DRC
12. Denmark
13. Mexico
"I tHoUgHt AuStRaLiA wAs LiKe- NoT tHaT bIg!"
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It’s impossible to portrait a spherical land mass on a flat map without distortion which stretches countries and farther from the equator a country is it makes it look bigger
Here's the answers to your questions:
The reason common maps such as the Mercator projection makes countries bigger or smaller than their actual size simply has to do with the fact that the Earth is a globe. You can't have a world map on a 2-dimensional area without some parts being stretched out. This means that the countries in the poles look huge, but the countries near the equator are smaller. The Mercator projection is a map that does this. It's great at retaining shape, but horrible at retaining size. Moral of the story: Use a globe for a world map.
Dan: Australia is bigger than Europe
Me: are you trying to make me me mad
Remember the u.s. has Alaska too
This deserves 1M views & subs!
Australia isn’t the size of the us, bc u forgot 2 states, Alaska and Hawaii.
True but we're bewarely different when it's just the contiguous 48 states
This is why i did a project where I used tracing paper to trace difernt countries, then cut them out and move them around. Some country comparisons even surprised ME. Like, how Finland is about the size of California. Or that Uruguay and Belarus are similar too
Dan never disappoints 😝
3:40....Dan....
Australia rank:6
America rank:3/4
Nobody is lying..its just map
You forgot to add Alaska to the US total area making it the third largest country in the world
Alaska:am I a joke to u
America:aparrently
Map's don't lie they just do that to not distort the countries shapes
Hello Dan I don’t watch much of your videos, but I watch a lot of your shorts and I really like them.
You forgot Canada and Alaska is a part or the USA too
The countries are not lying it's that the map is rectangular as the world is round so it makes the things on the top and bottom way bigger then they actually look.
5:00 they have to do this since they are putting stuff that are on something round on a rectangle which means of the country is above the equator it’s bigger then u think and below the equator is smaller then u think
“ITS TINY!”
Greenland: stretches from Canada to Mexico
"Australia is bigger than America" alaska:
I don't think Dan knows the difference between a map and a globe... Globes don't lie, maps do.
The reason that the Mercator projection was that it was easier for sailors to use it. But then everybody started using it
Would this help?
The further away the country is from the equator it looks bigger.Hope it helpes
"why is it so big?!"
That's what she said
“Russia has just gone from the biggest thing ive ever seen.. apart when i looking down on my shorts”
this really shocked me. love your videos and shorts
this means a lot to me fr
@@DanWoolleyas Someone Hacked Your Account I Swear U Never Used To Respond To Stuff 😭😂( Im Just Kidding Love Your Content Too )
Top 6 bigest countries in the world. 1. Russia. 2. Canada. 3. United States. 4. China. 5. Brazil. 6. Australia
Great video Dan.
“Russias just gone from the biggest thing I’ve ever seen in my life apart from when I’m looking down at my shorts to that.”
What does bro mean 🤔 🤔
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Russia is really, really big but turns out Africa is HUGE
I think it’s because the countries near the equator are more exposed to the light of the sun so they’re smaller. Countries which are far from the equator are bigger because they’re less exposed by the sun
Love this channel
You should try Indonesia
If you rotate Russia on its side, you can fit it in the vertical height of Russia. Africa is still bigger, but not as much as this guy thought
Europe is a bit bigger than Australia and America has Alaska dude🤓
They’re not lying, it’s the Mercator project.
5:30sorry dan but tsk mine is bigger,deal with it🤫🤫🤫
The map was made for sailors so that is why the map is stretched to tell the way
So the map makers use the map used for sailors
You must move the country to the equator of the map And that's a real size of the country
Been here sense 500k
Put all the countries in a line up on the equator to do a fare comparison the map distorts stuff as you go up or down.
5:25 😂😂
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Antarctica staring at everyone in the corner🌚
its marketer projection. the far you move from equator, your country will look way bigger than its actual size in map
The globe doesn’t lie, the Mercator projection does
Do Vatican City
You have to put it on the equator line and not on the other places 😂
3:29 Australia is so big that even pluto is smaller than it
He checked all the top 5 biggest country except for the second biggest country Canada
Australia is smaller the europe and usa. Australia is a continent Greenland is an island of course it bigger
For the last time, Australia is a country which is in Oceania, alng with new zealand, nauru, vanuatu, and many more.
@@NotTaniaTuvalu Samoa palau Kiribati Micronesia Papua New Guinea Fiji Marshall Islands Solomon Islands and Tonga also
@@Ireland_needs_monies okay lol ik but I'm not gonna include all of them, thx for replying tho
@@NotTania kk
@@Ireland_needs_monies plot twist: add an extra k
5:28
Actually, that map warps countries on where it is, so if you move Canada to the equator, you can see that it has a major difference, where the Canada on the map is larger, and the Canada that is smaller is the true Canada. Because they use the round earth technique to warp countries. So in reality, Australia is smaller than Brazil, and America because it warps countries based on where it is.
I was playing with my face 😂😂on the TV 😂😂
When it goes up it is becoming big but going down makes it small
Because of the Equator
Maps are made for navigation. You have a 3D world placed on a flat surface. The equator is fatter than the poles. To make lattitude & longitude line up, the surface area shrinks toward the equator and expands towards the poles. I thought this was common knowledge.
I people that make the maps can make the perfect shape on a rectangle because it’s a sphere
The countries that you chose and put on smaller countries and said the smaller ones are actually bigger but you don’t know cuz you also didn’t make the smaller countries their real side so that means Russia is still bigger than Africa and all the other stuff
It’s because it’s more easy for sailers a long time ago to know where they were going and so it was more easy to see where they were going
5:25 lmfao 😂🤣
ANTARCTICA VS GREENLAND
You're not including Alaska, which is also MASSIVE. You're only including the "Lower 48."
The amount of jokes of him saying sizes we could have made
They’re not lying because like it’s hard to draw globe wanted to circle but it’s a flat map
Dan map makers and globe makers don’t lie well globe makers don’t because on a map it’s squared but on a globe it’s round so the things on the top and bottom of the map are way bigger then they actually are so the globe is right and there not lying
it just the distortion of putting a sphere on a rectangle if you want to see the true size of countries use the goldpeters map projection
I’m curious how large you thought Australia was before figuring it out that Australia is a somewhat similar size to Europe.
Basically the closer to the equator, the smaller the country(on a map)
Hi
Countries that on equator is look smaller but bigger than most countries. And countries on equator have true sizes.
Can you absolutely make a video if actually the smallest country are actually small or big
by the ecuador countries get smaller just like antarctica it gets smaller cuz the ecuador is the middle of the earth and it makes things look smaller then they look. same goes for the middle line going horizontaly around the earth