 Click the image to go to the website | True size is a cool website tool when you are working with maps. Many students do not understand how, lets say the Mercator projection map distorts the size of countries. True size helps us really see that. In the example below, we can compare how Greenland and Antarctica look on the Mercator map (right). They look huge... Antarctica is bigger then all the continents combined. However, when we use the True size (left), we can see how much smaller it really is when we overlay it on the United States. Give True Size a try an let me know your thoughts. |
 Note Greenland's and Antarctica size on this map. |  Note the sizes of these places when dragged over the United States. We can see how the maps distort the real size. Greenland is blue and Antarctica is pink. |
But to go deeper, what about then comparing the countries in Wolfram alpha. The images below then show what it looks like to compare these places in population, economics and much more.
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