If you think that’s impressive, just look at the size of Spain compared to Spain
Man, the mercator projection really messes up the perspective, I never would have guessed!!
Wow, it covers Spain almost entirely
What are those rectangle territories on the top left?
I’ll assume you’re joking but funnily enough, there is piece of Spain in France:
That’s so Spain to just leave an exclave in France
Those are just decoration
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Can’t believe Portugal is nearly the same size as Portugal
They are completely different colors, however. 🤔
Red Portugal is best Portugal
Oooh, I’m a rebel just for kicks, now
The Portugal she told you not to worry about
Communist Portugal.
Our Portugal 🇵🇹
They would be the exact same size if Portugal didn’t have that Lisboa sized gap by its western border
Holy shit, I don’t think you can just go around saying “Lisboa sized gap,” wtf.
My apologies
A lisboa shaped gap
There is no one accepted standard for a Lisboa. All Lisboas are beautiful in their own right.
Can you put Portugal A little to the left so I can see Spain better?
If you line it up right, the borders are exactly the same shape! What a crazy coincidence!
Get more evidence for continental drift.
This might be my favorite shitpost of all time haha
I don’t get it. The joke is “haha it’s actually not a misleading projection”… ?
Mercator’s deformation show up when you move countries north/south. Since Portugal only moved slightly East the apparent size basically didn’t change. (You can even see and compare real Portugal just left of the red projection)
Right. The reason I don’t get the post is that I thought everyone would know and see this ^
I feel like this post is taking a picture of a cube, calling it a cube, then I’m supposed to doubt that it’s a cube. Which I wouldn’t…
That’s right, it goes in the square hole
#mapsWithoutNZ
I went through like three full thought cycles before realizng this was a shitpost. Good job.
This is surprising to a lot of people because everyone is used to seeing mercator projection maps, which skew the true size of countries
But how big is it compared to France?
So thats why the Portuguese description on products is always smaller than the Spanish one!
Jamón presunto
TIL: jamón en portugués es «presunto»
I would have read it as: jamón, presunto? supuesto? tal vez? quién sabe.
Presuntamente jamón, pero igual es papel reciclado.
The mercator projection really oversells the size of portugal. If you ordered a large pizza you’ll have to eat it outside of the country.
So true, it fits on my phone screen. A large pizza definitely wouldn’t fit.
Damn that’s a good shitpost.
Mr president a second Portugal has hit the Iberian peninsula
Why isn’t Spain just eating Portugal?
Why does Russia, the largest of the countries, not simply eat the rest?
I mean, they’re trying. Not very successfully as of late but they are.
They’re having a little trouble with Ukraine atm.
