This looks wrong. The UK is not that big, and the US is not bigger than Russia. And other countries look off too
Edit: I got bamboozled
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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No it's definitely right. Especially useful to contextualize second Alaska. I'm not sure how big you thought second Alaska was, but maybe this will help give you some perspective.
No no it really is that big- I've seen it myself.
Earth is definitely to scale here
Would you like to use a wicked wango card?
My favorite fact about how big Alaska is, is that you can fit at least a dozen Alaskas inside of Alaska.
If you were to divide Alaska into two equally large states, Texas would become the third largest state. And that's a true fact.
I bet the moon fits in there too
... the map includes Alaska inside it as well.
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That's stunning.
i mean they were right about Portugal, Switzerland and sorta the UK
Yeah, but what about Kazakhstan?
Where's the Hawaii?!
Ok but do you really want grizzlies to be hanging out in a very dense bear city if they shrunk Alaska to make it more reasonable?