Geography
The Big World Map
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Earth is round, and a flat map can’t show it without stretching something.
On many world maps, places near the poles look far bigger than they are: Greenland looks about as big as Africa, but Africa is about 14 times larger. Every flat map chooses what to get right and what to distort.
Find Nepal. Then find a country that looks much bigger here than it really is.