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minus-squareNeatNitlinkfedilinkarrow-up35arrow-down1·2 months agoStates starting with A are huge, states starting with W are tiny. (If there were states starting with Z they’d be even smaller)
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·2 months agoThat’s what I originally thought, but if you compare Maine and Alaska, the sizes aren’t much different to my eye
minus-squarewjrii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoBut which map projection is he using?
minus-squareLesrid@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoMaybe he took all the current areas of the states. Then reassigned them alphabetically. Rather than creating new areas.
minus-squareNeatNitlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-22 months agoI don’t know, it’s a dumb concept anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
minus-squareAmputret@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoThen why is Hawaii fucking massive?
minus-squareninja@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoHawaii’s landmass is spread out across islands. If you smash them all together the size looks like it’d be comparable to Illinois. Colorado, on the other hand, looks a bit large.
minus-squareAnamnesis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoYeah, Hawaii is huge and Idaho is way smaller than it actually is, despite it being right behind Hawaii, alphabetically.
States starting with A are huge, states starting with W are tiny. (If there were states starting with Z they’d be even smaller)
That’s what I originally thought, but if you compare Maine and Alaska, the sizes aren’t much different to my eye
But which map projection is he using?
Maybe he took all the current areas of the states. Then reassigned them alphabetically. Rather than creating new areas.
I don’t know, it’s a dumb concept anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then why is Hawaii fucking massive?
Hawaii’s landmass is spread out across islands. If you smash them all together the size looks like it’d be comparable to Illinois. Colorado, on the other hand, looks a bit large.
Yeah, Hawaii is huge and Idaho is way smaller than it actually is, despite it being right behind Hawaii, alphabetically.