All of us have seen a world map at some point in our lives before, but it is very difficult to imagine how certain countries and

parts of the world compare to each other in size that are far apart.

In this video, I explore why the world looks very different than how it is portrayed in the Mercator Projection map. I then go on to explore how certain countries are unexpectedly larger or smaller than what they appear to be, and how some places looks wildly different than our perceptions.