before we begin shoutout to Squarespace
for sponsoring today's video I hope
you're ready hey when I was a kid I was
scared of Canada
you know I because of the ban on the
world map
Canada looks huge and the kid in me
thought the bigger in the country
the more powerful it is but turns out
Canada is not that huge and the world
map is wrong this video is not here to
blame anyone it's just to share
information because the current world
map that we know is inaccurate see this
Mercator map was invented 500 years ago
and the point of it was simple it was
supposed to help you navigate so if you
use it you can travel from one place to
another easily it's perfect for sailing
but it's not perfect in telling us the
true size of countries because it
stretches them here greenland looks as
big as Africa but that's wrong in real
life Africa is 14 times bigger than
Greenland and Canada is now small
compared to Africa and compared to South
America because the world is a sphere
there is many many ways to represent it
on a paper that's why at our Nast daily
office we decided to paint a different
kind of map one that shows you the true
size of countries this is the gall
Peters map and it looks a bit weird when
people see it they think the painter did
a bad job but she didn't
this map shows you the true size of
countries in real life yes
now Africa looks a little bit weird and
distorted but this is the true size of
it Russia Canada Europe and Greenland
are also now accurate be
cause when it comes to country's size
does matter when we shrink countries and
expand others it changes our perception
and unfortunately the underdeveloped
world pays most of the price we think
differently about small countries than
we do about big ones
it's called geopolitics in real life I'm
not the only one who thinks this way
public schools in Boston understood this
problem that's why they decided to
switch to the new goal Peters map
because according to them the new map is
going to change how kids see the world
much for the better there are many kids
like me right now in their bedrooms
looking at the world map and judging
countries based on their size it is high
time we show them the true size and the
true power of every country in the world
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