The True Size of Countries
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The True Size of Countries
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#2This is cool! I'm not seeing instructions on how to rotate the selected country.
Edit: Ah, I see it now in the instructional video. My browser's video controls were obscuring it. You click and drag the compass in the bottom left.
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#3This is cool! I'm not seeing instructions on how to rotate the selected country. Edit: Ah, I see it now in the instructional video. My browser's video controls were obscuring it. You click and drag the compass in the bottom left.
Click on the country and the compass rose will change color to match. You can drag the compass rose around to rotate the country.
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#4Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182024
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#5This is cool! I'm not seeing instructions on how to rotate the selected country. Edit: Ah, I see it now in the instructional video. My browser's video controls were obscuring it. You click and drag the compass in the bottom left.
Presumedly that is how they came up with this graphic, which shows Africa encompassing nearly all of the US, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Eastern Europe, India, China, Japan, and the UK in its borders:
http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/true-siz...
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#6It is surprising that a lot of educated folks don't know about this. I always run into folks who think Greenland is the biggest island.
Edit: on Australia being continent - now I come across as a fool. But I hope people understood what I meant. Also, I have had to argue against folks who said Greenland should also be a continent since it is bigger than Australia.
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#7It is surprising that a lot of educated folks don't know about this. I always run into folks who think Greenland is the biggest island. Edit: on Australia being continent - now I come across as a fool. But I hope people understood what I meant. Also, I have had to argue against folks who said Greenland should also be a continent since it is bigger than Australia.
Greenland is the biggest island, by a large factor.
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#8Small nitpick: The country area is inverted if you move it near the poles. (Maybe because the orientation clockwise/counterclockwise changes implicitly.)
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#9It is surprising that a lot of educated folks don't know about this. I always run into folks who think Greenland is the biggest island. Edit: on Australia being continent - now I come across as a fool. But I hope people understood what I meant. Also, I have had to argue against folks who said Greenland should also be a continent since it is bigger than Australia.
Greenland @839,999 square miles is the biggest island. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001783.html
Unless your talking about Australia which is ~3.5x a big. (2,969,907 sq miles)
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#10It is surprising that a lot of educated folks don't know about this. I always run into folks who think Greenland is the biggest island. Edit: on Australia being continent - now I come across as a fool. But I hope people understood what I meant. Also, I have had to argue against folks who said Greenland should also be a continent since it is bigger than Australia.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_area Greenland is the biggest island.