19 Maps That Will Help You Put The United States In Perspective
The U.S. is basically an overcompensating, attention-seeking brat.
8. The Sudan* x The United States
*before South Sudan officially became an independent state on July 9, 2011
9. The Democratic Republic of Congo x The United States
13. Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos x The United States
18. The U.S. vs The World
19. Maps are just all wrong. Here’s how the world map should look according to “The West Wing”:
Ah, the politics of map design.
The Gall-Peters Projection world map
While originally created by James Gall in 1885, the Gall-Peters Projection came into public consciousness in 1967 when Arno Peters championed it as a more accurate representation of the size of countries. It was considered controversial for calling into question the way the “third-world” is represented.
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IndigosMuse 2 months agoWe PRAISE other cultures for having such pride in their Countries, yet we look down on ourselves for having PRIDE in our own Country! WTF man. The United States IS the center of the universe as far as I am concerned! It is were I choose to live, work and play. I want its success because in return it will provide me the opportunity for MY success…So Kudos to you for whatever point you were trying to make above. Sounds like you have some personal issues you need to work through…
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billp13 2 months agoI didn’t know American maps cut Asia in half to put the Americas in the centre of the picture. Not surprising though when you think of it. This kind of project is important in showing the actual sizes of places relative to each other. The Mercator Projection always underrepresents Africa, and the flat-projection versions shrink the Africa, South America and India to a fraction of their real sizes.
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Trey Patch 2 months agoThe United States maybe not be the largest country in terms of geography, but it is currently the world’s largest economy, the third most most populous nation, and it accounts for 42% of the world total military spending.
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tahrey 2 months ago
Such things are in turn deceptive, and worrying. Third most populous it may be, but the second and first most populous outstrip it by miles, and there are a lot of other nearly-as / significant-fraction-of nations besides. The US makes up something like 4.2% of total human population on earth. Which should make the third stat wholly terrifying - you have therefore something like 10x the global avereage defence spend. Why, fer Pete’s sake?! Incidentally, if we count the EU as a rival (both are federal superstates, when viewed objectively; both Texas and France counting as smaller parts of the whole, both with deprecated border controls and no longer having their own currency, etc…), then you’re only second. That’s right, the liddle ol’ uropeen union has a greater GDP than the USA. Which suggests that per capita, and per square mile, you’re not all that great shakes any more. (In fact, in terms of per-cap, you’re 6th). You do make up a good quarter of the world economic activity however, I’ll give you that. How much of it is high speed automated trading, though, who knows…
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mitchellb4 3 months agoI’m not sure I see anything in these pictures to support the premise that the U.S. is “an overcompensating, attention-seeking brat.” We’re bigger than most countries, smaller than others. So what? We produce more cars, cell phones, patents, medical devices, doctors, research papers, wheat, corn, soy, beef, milk, cheese, rice, tanks, fighter jets, helicopters, foreign assistance, relief shipments, blockbuster movies, and rock-and-roll albums than almost any 40 countries combined. Our “poor” people eat more hamburgers in a day than all of Pyongyang and Kinshasa will eat in a decade. If anything, much of the rest of the world is an underperforming, handout-seeking mooch. Where does that show on the map?
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- Jim M. added Cry Me A River to the mix about 3 months ago
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funkdragon23 3 months agoAnother product of our public school system, perhaps? Alaska is about 2.5 times bigger than Texas.
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baconnmeggs 3 months ago
“The US is basically an overcompensating, attention seeking brat”
Who wrote this, a 12 year old? Ppl need to get over us, we’re the Regina George of countries -
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tahrey 2 months ago
Er, looks the same to me, apart from a slightly different projection that means it’s stretched vertically instead of horizontally? Want to clue us in on the fine detail I’m missing? Unless of course the idea is to cause sectarian drama over the ownership of Kashmir, in which case, take it elsewhere, I/we honestly couldn’t give a shit. (Heck, I think the best resolution would be to take that “toy” away from both of you, send you to bed without supper, and allow it to become independent and self governing because neither India or Pakistan will be satisfied if the other bunch are allowed to keep it, or even an even 50/50 split of it. May as well piss both of you off over a common cause)
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