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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 7 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

is this an accurate representation of the US landmass ? I was under the impression they were much biger than that..., but they're roughly the size of Europe ?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Alaska and Hawaii aren't pictured.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Because they'd be in Morocco!^[As any good US elementary school map of the US would show!]

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

The USA is slightly smaller than Europe (not the EU) if you include Alaska and Hawaii

[–] mrmule@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] callyral@pawb.social 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Screenshot of a map of the continental United States on top of a map of Europe, accounting for the map projection. The US stretches from just west of Ireland all the way to TΓΌrkiye and interior parts of Russia.

It looks just slightly bigger than in the OP's screenshot

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 34 minutes ago (1 children)

The two "maps" are wildly out of proportions anyway. Looks like Sweden is the size of the entire US West Coast. When in reality it's about the size of California

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

Given how the US border is distorted (Maine is north of the 49th parallel) I'm guessing this is one of those maps that distorts things as you move them around to keep the area constant. Like look how big Greenland looks up in the corner.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 27 minutes ago (1 children)

Greenland is not in the image

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 minutes ago

Then what is the unlabeled landmass at the very top left, northeast of Iceland?

[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The entirety of Oregon and most of California and Washington are ocean in this image

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The whole continent of Europe is slightly bigger than the USA. The EU (union) is smaller than the USA.