A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online moderately exaggerated the size of Texas; however it was more or less an ...

This is due to the Mercator Projection, a type of map dating back to 1569 ... to the entire continent of Europe, which dominates most of the northern hemisphere, they are fairly equal in size.

Whether you realize it or not, you're probably pretty familiar with the Mercator projection. It's the chosen map of Google, and often displayed in classrooms around the country. But Boston public ...