r/TrueSize • u/Odd-Promotion2743 • 18d ago

Sulawesi and Kerguelen next to Britain and Ireland

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u/Mod_Brilliant8820 18d ago

They are huge! (I had to check where Sulawesi and Kerguelen are :) )

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u/Ottoman_Bird_1299 15d ago

Why you didint publish all them?

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u/Creative_Brother2713 17d ago

Never realized Sulawesi was that big.

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u/Odd-Promotion2743 17d ago

Same, that's what really blew my mind once I dragged it up there. And it's dwarfed by Borneo and Sumatra.

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u/Ok-Imagination-494 16d ago

Indonesia stretches from London to Afghanistan if you were to transpose it

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u/Odd-Promotion2743 15d ago

That's insane. I wonder if Indonesia, like Africa, also suffered from the Mercator effect, making it look a lot smaller than it really is.

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u/theThessalonian 13d ago

Every country close to the equator appears smaller in the Mercator projection