Flat maps stretch everything near the poles. Pick a country and drag it somewhere else to see how big it really is.
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How this works & sources · Imagery: NASA Blue Marble and Black Marble, via NASA GIBS (ESDIS). Boundaries, cities and ice: Natural Earth. Elevation: NOAA ETOPO1. Plate motions: Matthews et al. 2016; ancient geography: Cao et al. 2017; both EarthByte (CC BY 4.0). Historical borders: Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), simplified.