American Reacts to Why All World Maps Are Wrong! 

I love how you have to Google English English to interpret it! As Churchill said about England and the USA, "Two countries separated by a common language."

It's within Belgium, not Brussels.

If you Google "the true size of" you'll get a website which allows you you get a country to be dragged & rotated to see how it'll morph near equator vs poles.

Flander's is the northern part of Belgium the country not Brussels the city, where Flemish (A dialect of Dutch) is primarily spoken. And the southern half of the country is called Wallonia where French is the primary language. I would recommend you to watch Geography Now's episode on Belgium for further clarifications. It's a country with a very weirdly complicated and interesting history and origins.

I really enjoy your content JJ, keep up the great work!

THIS is so endearing (!). I'm an English teacher (to mostly Spanish speakers) and the "how do you say 'despedida de soltero'?" moment is one of my favourites because I get to teach bachelor/bachelorette (US) stag/hen party (UK) and the suffix -do! What a great teaching point. Seeing JJ also go through this realisation was great. Noticing the inherent sexism of stag vs hen as animals of choice is also a funny discussion point.

Professor Dave, the world still isn't flat is one of the best RU-vid videos ever.

There's a website called "true size of" which allows to type any country and move it around to show it's true size and accurately visually compare countries.

The Sydney Opera House design was inspired by a sliced orange and its "sails" if you put them together would make a sphere. So using that principle, I am with you on the 'crescenty' map JJ.

At Google Maps on your PC (so not mobile) in the menu where you can toggle layers (default, sattelite, traffic, etc.) there should be a More button. Clicking on that will reveal a "Globe view"checkbox. Clicking on that changes the Mercator perspective from Google Maps to a globe. Now you can really see the true differences between country sizes.

Maps show 3 types of information, Distances, Angles, and Areas, only a globe can show all 3 correctly. The best a flat projection can manage is 2 of these, which 2 you can keep depends on the type of projection you use, so choose which 2 are the most important to you, and pick your projection accordingly!

I cracked up at 4:04 with the morph credits music. Shame JJ missed it but it was very subtle.

Hmmm well at almost 48 years old, I feel like I've pondered most things in life.... and yet this I had never thought about before! I assumed the atlus style map was totally to scale all over! So very interesting! I'm educated muchly by this video! Thank you Map Men (Men) + Extra Man (JJ) for giving me a lot to think about on my next hour long walk to work (and back!) :D

I'm a bit sad they didn't mention my personal favorite projection, the Robinson projection (edit : That might be the one you were looking for at the end). I think it's a good compromise between size and shape, though I will admit things still get quite squished near the poles. But most people don't live near the poles, so I don't think it matters THAT much. Plus, distortion is inevitable unless you cut bits in the middle, which I think just looks dreadful. At the end of the day, if you want the most accurate map possible, just use a globe. Especially now that we have technological tools, we can just get access to digital globes really easily; just go on Google Maps, for instance.

The Map Top 10s countdown music was that used by Top of The Pops Chart rundown music segment.

Wow! They had a surprise use of the theme tune to Morph at about 4:02! 80s flashback! :)

This video made me realize that Greenland is smaller than Algeria, which blows my mind. Thank you.

01:20 "why do flat earther's believe this?", great question! ... we still don't know the answer to this yet 😂

Hilarious, you're a lovely guy.👵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹🌹 Have a happy Thanksgiving

Digital dosent solve the problem. The problem isnt the inability to draw, its that it cant be done

You can't understand flat earthers if you think the movement has anything to do with the shape of the earth.

They missed showing the Australian Map, that is every thing upside down.

The Flat Earth Society are 100% trolling. Their Facebook page says "Chapters all around the globe"😅

One RU-vidr who is a pilot (74 gear I think) offered to make a charter flight for flat earthers around the globe to show them that the world isn’t flat. But no one ever reached out to him lol

I would actually like to buy something like that "more accurate but weird" projection in good quality print. Our perception of our world is through our exposure to maps through media so it might be interesting to see another variant in daily life. Maybe I'll put it in my bathroom.

When you zoom out in Google Maps, it does switch to a 3d globe nowadays.

Hey. Can I just ask, did you visit Berlin back in June 2004?

06:50 "I guess it's more accurate". No, it's just differently inaccurate, that's the point of the entire video.

Yes, Google Earth / Google Maps simply projects the planet onto a sphere in 3D. Problem solved. Zoom out all the way and you can spin it around and around. Weeee!!

Not the North part of Brussels! Brussels is a French-speaking city within Flanders. Flemish is a variety of Dutch and the non-Flemish Belgians speak Walloon, which is a dialect of French. Except for those who speak Luxembourgeois...well, you get the picture..🙂

What's a hen do? It lays eggs ...

Wait wait wait wait WAIT, in the video they took Greenland and centred it over the equator to show it’s size in comparison to Africa, can’t we just take every country, find it’s size at the equator and then put it back in its place retaining its size and shape at the same time? Who said the map can’t be built piece by piece?

99% of flat earthers DON'T believe the earth is flat. They are just trolling. They WANT everyone to hate them and pretending to seriously believe it is one of the best ways.

I don't think they explained the Mercator projection very well. Because the Earth is a sphere(ish) there are infinite "straight" lines between any 2 points on it's surface. It's most obvious if you consider the N & S poles, but still applies anywhere else: visualise cutting that orange skin in to segments then trimming one down by cutting parallel strips off the sides. The important bit is that North remains straight up for all points, so you can measure the same bearings off the flat map as you can from a round globe. Strictly speaking that's Transverse Mercator Projection (with North at the top) - you could turn your sphere around inside your tube so any point becomes the top.

Brussels is a city within the country of Belgium . Flemish is a Dutch dialect.

Another great vid my friend. Your episodes are just a great laugh and informative. Thanks you for great ways to waste my time at work fella.....

Do maps need to be a symmetrical rectangle ?

Flat Earthers have realy bad eye sight, if they didn't they could see the mountins, get the glasses on see hills etc ,the earth is sudenly not flat. Thanks Pub Landlord.

The Earth is not completely round, like a globe, either. The poles protrude somewhat.

The world isn't round.....It's ovoid But in common vernacular, ovoid is round.

Bristol Shout Out!!!!

Flanders isn't the north part of Brussels

English English Do=Party. Great Time, Punch Up, whatever

Even the globe is wrong because earth isn’t entirely round.

I think 99% of Flat Earthers are trolling

8:27 is easily the best map.

Brussels is the city Belgium is the country 😂 2:23

is your brother mlgpuckett? you loko the same its crazy

Imo flat earthers don't like their lives , and they hope that if everything we have been told is wrong , it may change their reality. Or they are just bored

My un favourite maps of the world are the ones that show the Americas centrally and split the European/Asian continent either side of the map. All world maps should show the Americas to either the left or right of the page.

Love their timing re flat earth just as you finished fact checking the flat earth society thoughts !

The west wing, cheese day.

Bottom line. You can't project a 3d shape on a flat piece of paper. As a sailor, the Mercator projection allows me to navigate the world, with a compass, sextant and accurate clock. And the world is flat and only six thousand years old.

That's why Russia and Greenland are so big, and India is so small! Racist Polarist, Mercator! Oh damn, they go and say it in the video!! Not fair!!!

We have correct world maps. You can buy them. They're all over the place. They just happen to be round. Funny how that works.

Flat earthers are true empiricists. They don't rely on anyone's word, only their own experience. The earth they experience is flat therefore they have no reason to believe it's anything but flat. You have to respect that on some level.

they just want to be special.

I wonder why they can't make atlas maps based on the actual relative areas of the land, considering that we don't use them for navigation.

Maybe flat earthenware see the planets and think they look flat which they do on TV.

It's Japan, not like Japan

Sorry but if at the end of the video you yrt wonder if is possible (even with the aid of computer) to render a sferic surface into a flat foil you don't get the point. Is geometry 101, you cant. Every try is jyst focused to show what's relevant for those map losing some dettail in the process. Try to envelop an apple with a paper whitout crumple, is easy to understand why you cant.

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Dressed as a Hindu? 🤔

ADemocrat would say that it was all Trump's fault .lol.

Same people that believe in the likes of trump

One thing that irritating me from this video is that he keeps opening and closing tab every time he does research, why?

Sorry mate STOP STOPPING