1. List the countries that show a large difference between their size on the map and on aglobe. Compare five different countries and calculate the relative difference.
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the example of China, which has a total size of 9,596,961 sq km, is a much bigger country than Greenland, which is just 2,166,086 sq km in size. However, Greenland looks bigger than China because it is close to the North Pole and China being closer to the equator.
Similarly, let’s take the example of the United States (contiguous 48). Even though having a size of 9,904,670 sq km, if we place the US next to Australia, with a size of 7,692,024 sq km and near the equator, the country looks unbelievably small, almost the same as Australia.
Canada, with a size of 9,984,670 sq km, has almost equal size of China (9,596,961 sq km), but its proximity to the North Pole makes it look much larger than China.India has a size of 3,166,414 sq km, which looks tiny compared to Greenland. Now, if we take it to the North Pole, it looks way bigger than Greenland (2,166,086 sq km), which is, in reality, true according to their size. But since India is located near the equator its size look much smaller than Greenland.look at an equatorial country like Egypt (1,002,450 sq km). On a normal global map, it looks almost the same size as a north European country like, say Finland (338,424 sq km). Now when you move Egypt next to Finland, you actually get to see its almost double in size.