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DiscoverMaps and tools
Compare countries at the same scale, change your perspective and explore how maps work.
World center
See the world from the perspective of any country.
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Projection maps
Overlay countries and compare their true areas.
World center
See the world from the perspective of any country.
Dig through the Earth
See where a tunnel through the Earth's center would come out.
Continental drift
Travel through ancient Earth, from Nuna and Rodinia to Pangaea and today.
Empires at true scale
Empire extents on the Mercator and Equal Earth maps and on the globe.
Compare countries and continents
Overlay two outlines at the same scale.
Earth laboratory
Globe and disc maps, routes, shadows and the horizon.
Routes on a map
Explore great-circle and rhumb-line routes.
Choose a projection
Open any map and explore how it changes shapes and areas.
Results: 18
Mercator projectionConformal, cylindricalRobinson projectionCompromise, pseudocylindricalGall-Peters projectionEqual-area, cylindricalMollweide projectionEqual-area, pseudocylindricalWinkel Tripel projectionCompromise, modified azimuthalEqual Earth projectionEqual-area, pseudocylindricalPeirce quincuncial projectionConformal, squareBerghaus star projectionEquidistant, interrupted azimuthal (star)August epicycloidal projectionConformal, epicycloidalPlate Carrée (equirectangular) projectionEquidistant, cylindricalOrthographic projectionNeither equal-area nor conformal, perspective azimuthalWaterman butterfly projectionCompromise, interrupted polyhedralDymaxion (Airocean) projectionCompromise, interrupted polyhedralWerner cordiform projectionEqual-area, pseudoconicSpilhaus projectionConformal, squareGnomonic projectionNeither equal-area nor conformal, perspective azimuthalAzimuthal equidistant projectionEquidistant, azimuthalInterrupted Goode homolosine projectionEqual-area, interrupted pseudocylindrical