World Map is Wrong

before we begin shoutout to Squarespace for sponsoring today's video I hope you're ready hey when I was a kid I was scared of Canada you know I because of the ban on the world map Canada looks huge and the kid in me thought the bigger in the country the more powerful it is but turns out Canada is not that huge and the world map is wrong this video is not here to blame anyone it's just to share information because the current world map that we know is inaccurate see this Mercator map was invented 500 years ago and the point of it was simple it was supposed to help you navigate so if you use it you can travel from one place to another easily it's perfect for sailing but it's not perfect in telling us the true size of countries because it stretches them here greenland looks as big as Africa but that's wrong in real life Africa is 14 times bigger than Greenland and Canada is now small compared to Africa and compared to South America because the world is a sphere there is many many ways to represent it on a paper that's why at our Nast daily office we decided to paint a different kind of map one that shows you the true size of countries this is the gall Peters map and it looks a bit weird when people see it they think the painter did a bad job but she didn't this map shows you the true size of countries in real life yes now Africa looks a little bit weird and distorted but this is the true size of it Russia Canada Europe and Greenland are also now accurate be cause when it comes to country's size does matter when we shrink countries and expand others it changes our perception and unfortunately the underdeveloped world pays most of the price we think differently about small countries than we do about big ones it's called geopolitics in real life I'm not the only one who thinks this way public schools in Boston understood this problem that's why they decided to switch to the new goal Peters map because according to them the new map is going to change how kids see the world much for the better there are many kids like me right now in their bedrooms looking at the world map and judging countries based on their size it is high time we show them the true size and the true power of every country in the world hey everybody thank you so much for watching this video and thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring this video with Squarespace all you need is an idea and your website is done you can choose from many templates you can link all your social media accounts so you can post all at the same time you don't need a laptop you can make any changes you want from your mobile phone go to Squarespace comm slash not Daley and you will get 10% off your first purchase and a free trial thank you for watching the videos see you guys soon

Channel: Nas Daily

Views: 2,652,907

Keywords: NasDaily, Travel, World, World map, Squarespace

Id: GR7gVIZJfQo

Length: 3min 48sec (228 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 11 2020