Why Are Maps Lying To Us 🤯

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Africa and Canada [clears throat] look almost [music] the same size on most world maps, but that's completely misleading. Flat world maps stretch [music] countries near the poles, making them appear much larger than they really are. Since Canada is so far north, it gets heavily [music] distorted in size.

[00:00:13]Africa sits much closer to the equator, so its true scale gets visually underestimated. And the difference is massive. Canada is about 10 million square kilometers, while Africa is over 30 million. That means Africa is actually more than three times larger than Canada. You could fit multiple Canadas [music] inside Africa and still have space left over. So, the map most people grew up looking at has been completely distorting the true size of Africa.