Map Of World Real Proportions

You may be surprised at what you find! For historical maps, please visit historical mapchart, where you can find. Globes are equally difficult to use for this purpose.

The americas and africa are tilted inward and pushed to the upper corners of the map, while australia sits perfectly upright at the bottom center. This map is know as cylindrical projection because of its straight lines of longitude and latitude. Created by artist and architect hajime narukawa, the map looks pretty weird at first glance, with an orientation shift between asia and north america, but it's actually one of the most proportional maps we've got.

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You may be surprised at what you find! The americas and africa are tilted inward and pushed to the upper corners of the map, while australia sits perfectly upright at the bottom center. Australia is usually on the other side of the map in relation to america, so it's hard to see that we are close to being the same size. Narukawa's authagraph world map, which he unveiled in 2016, won the coveted grand award of japan's good design award competition, beating out over 1,000 entries in a variety of categories.