We Have Been Misled By An Erroneous Map Of The World For 500 Years

[Manzareh]

YES the common world map taught in schools is wrong

PETERS PROJECTION WORLD MAP, 1974
It's impossible to portray the reality of the spherical world on a flat map. The familiar 'Mercator' projection gives the right shapes of land masses (up to a point), but at the cost of distorting their sizes in favour of the wealthy lands to the north.

The German Arno Peters sought to correct this. His projection gets the proportions (roughly) right, and has the effect of emphasising the Third World. That said, it's no more 'true' than the 'colonialist' projection it seeks to replace.



notice how huge Saudi, South America and Africa are compared to Russia, America, Europe. Quite amazing

[Badlun]

Seems interesting. However the things can be changed on the paper, in reality the developed North and West is more advanced than the South or the East in real world.

I was always curious that why North is more prosperous than South? Is it the climate? In North it is colder than the South.

Australia, New Zealand , Brazil and Chile as well as Argentina are also comparatively developed. I have been to South American countries and have seen that their South is more developed than the North. In South they have colder climate.

South Africa is more developed than the countries Northward.

[Khostai]

South peopel have no education, corrupt and a lot of wars and instability, the north has just it **** toghether. But times changes, maybe in future the south will be the richest, civilized and most developed again. actualy in this century every part of the world is going better day by day except the muslim countries......