Say what about Alaska?

lindahl:

If anyone actually managed to make it through my entire post about Greenland, here’s a little “The More You Know” moment, courtesy of my buddy Andrew (possibly the only person who read the entire post to begin with). Granted, it’s still a big flipping country.

“Like all map projections that attempt to fit a curved surface onto a flat sheet, the shape of the map is a distortion of the true layout of the Earth’s surface. The Mercator projection exaggerates the size of areas far from the equator. For example:

• Greenland is presented as having roughly as much land area as Africa, when in fact Africa’s area is approximately 14 times greater than Greenland.
• Alaska is presented as having similar or even slightly more land area than Brazil, when Brazil’s area is actually more than 5 times that of Alaska.
• Finland appears with a greater north-south extent than India, although India’s is the greater.”

Via Wikipedia (Truth by democracy).