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TrueSize Examples: Compare Real Sizes of Countries, Empires and Planets
Flat world maps distort size, so many familiar comparisons are wrong. These examples answer popular questions with the true numbers: How big is the USA on the Moon? Was the Soviet Union bigger than Pluto? Is Greenland really as big as Africa? Each page explains the answer and opens the same map in TrueSize, where you can drag the regions around yourself.
New to the app? Start with the TrueSize tutorial or open the map.
Planets
About 26% of the whole surface.
Yes, by about 24%.
About 12% of the planet.
A speck of 0.02% or less.
History
About 2.7 times the 48 contiguous states.
About 4.8 million km² at its peak.
About 27 million km².
Almost a quarter of the world's land in 1920.
About 4.75 million km² around 1600.
About 21.9 million km² in 1895.
1.5 times modern Germany.
About 13.7 million km² in the late 1700s.
About 8.9 million km² in 1943.
About the size of the United Kingdom.
British, Mongol, Soviet and more.
The USA, Sweden and Afghanistan.
Ice-age land bridges and a sunken continent.
21,196 km of walls and trenches.
Test ranges and exclusion zones at true size.
Classic map myths
Africa is about 14 times larger.
The USA, China, India, Greenland and more fit inside.
The Mercator projection explained.
Some are bigger than most countries.
Four of the smallest fit inside Liechtenstein.
A union of 27 countries, about half the contiguous USA.
Nature
A desert bigger than the 48 contiguous states.
Lakes the size of nations.
Bigger than the whole European Union.
A park almost the size of Egypt.
The largest impact craters on Earth.
A23a, A-68 and B-15 on the timeline.
Cities and latitude
London, New York, Tokyo and Paris.
Rome and New York share a latitude.
Simulations
Every country at its true size.
More people inside than outside.
Blast radius compared.
Creative
Move, duplicate, rotate and flip countries to build creatures and artwork. Here is a "World Warrior" made from country shapes.
Open the World Warrior map in TrueSize
Map poster gallery
TrueSize can export printable map posters. To make your own, see the map poster tutorial.
