Question

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.​

Answer 1

Answer:

let us say if you take 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.