Editing Mercator projection (section)

===Examples of size distortion===
* [[Greenland]] appears the same size as [[Africa]], when in reality Africa's area is 14 times as large.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-27 |title=This animated map shows the true size of each country |url=https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/data-visualisation-animated-map-mercater-projection-true-size-countries |access-date=2023-06-20 |website=Nature Index |language=en}}</ref> 
** Greenland's real area is comparable to the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]'s alone. 
** Africa appears to be roughly the same size as [[South America]], when in reality Africa is over one and a half times as large.
* [[Alaska]] appears to be the same size as [[Australia]], although Australia is actually 4.5 times as large.
** Alaska also takes as much area on the map as [[Brazil]], whereas Brazil's area is nearly 5 times that of Alaska.
* [[Madagascar]] and [[Great Britain]] look about the same size, while Madagascar is actually more than twice as large as Great Britain.