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The world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projection (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You have to look at the land area.

[โ€“] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

And lakes and rivers those count too