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
People on Twitter would get mad about this every few weeks like clockwork as though it was an intentional conspiracy against Africa (emphasising important places like Greenland) and classroom globes aren’t a thing.
We have Tissot’s indicatrix to display this kind of distortion, much more universally usable than this random circle. Check wikipedia for examples, scroll down: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissot's_indicatrix
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