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Pakistan: On Maps

Categories: South Asia, Pakistan, History, International Relations

Light Within [1] on (mis)representation on the world map. “In Mercator’s map Greenland is bigger than Africa, which is in reality 14 times larger. Scandinavia is shown to be the same size as India although it is actually only one third the size. The erstwhile USSR (22.4 million square kilometres) seems bigger than Africa, which is 30 million square kilometres.”