Why Africa looks smaller than it really is on Google Maps

Why Africa looks smaller than it really is on Google Maps

Africa is not happy with how Google Maps portrays it. The popular Mercator map projection, used by Google Maps and many other online maps, distorts the size of landmasses, making Africa look small compared to other continents, despite being the second-largest after Asia. The disparity is easily seen when comparing Greenland to Africa. On the Mercator map, Greenland looks almost the same size as the continent, but in reality, Africa is 14 times l…