How red is your world? aka Where have you been?

[Oberyn]

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"Peters's chosen projection suffers extreme distortion in the polar regions, as any cylindrical projection must, and its distortion along the equator is considerable. Several scholars have remarked on the irony of the projection's undistorted presentation of the mid latitudes, including Peters's native Germany, at the expense of the low latitudes, which host more of the technologically underdeveloped nations.[26][27] The claim of distance fidelity is particularly problematic: Peters's map lacks distance fidelity everywhere except along the 45th parallels north and south, and then only in the direction of those parallels. No world projection is good at preserving distances everywhere; Peters's and all other cylindric projections are especially bad in that regard because east-west distances inevitably balloon toward the poles"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall-Peters

[Kafein]

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"Peters's chosen projection suffers extreme distortion in the polar regions, as any cylindrical projection must, and its distortion along the equator is considerable. Several scholars have remarked on the irony of the projection's undistorted presentation of the mid latitudes, including Peters's native Germany, at the expense of the low latitudes, which host more of the technologically underdeveloped nations.[26][27] The claim of distance fidelity is particularly problematic: Peters's map lacks distance fidelity everywhere except along the 45th parallels north and south, and then only in the direction of those parallels. No world projection is good at preserving distances everywhere; Peters's and all other cylindric projections are especially bad in that regard because east-west distances inevitably balloon toward the poles"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall-Peters

I agree on all of this but still, I heard somewhere Mercator's map is worse when it comes to surface preservation. And that seems logical considering Greenland is much much smaller than Africa even though looking more or less the same on a Mercator map. Btw I knew that xkcd comic and it's still one of his bests.

[Arathian]

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and I win.

I count only places I have been for living or vacations for more than a day. Bussiness trips with my father doesn't count mainly because I never left the bloody plane or base.

[Joseph Porta]

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  i've never been in an airplane before

[Kafein]

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  i've never been in an airplane before

You mean you were born on one and never left it ?

[Christo]

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Meh.. I'd like to see more of the world but it's hard getting out of this craphole I live in.

[Cicero]

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wow too many people visited turkey ? u secret muslims!

next trip : croatia / dubrovnik

[Lord_Panos]

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wow too many people visited turkey ? u secret muslims!

next trip : croatia / dubrovnik

The day that Ill visit Turkey will be the day that Constantinople will be Greek again 

[Sharky]

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Went to egypt 4 times, 1 to cruise ship on nile & cairo, 3 in Sharm El Sheik, i just love the red sea and it's a quite cheap trip too, i recommend it to all sea lovers  .
Also it doesn't show but i went to malta when i was really young, officially to study english, but we ended up doing other stuff instead 

Not counting countries i visited with the cruise ship, i went to 2 of them in mediterranean so i was to most of mediterranean countries, even if just on the harbour for a day

[Svitjodvarg]

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Shit wont work..?

[Svitjodvarg]

Then think about what it makes Finland look like? Ofc WE ARE THE BALLS OF SCANDINAVIA! :DD

Finland is not part of scandinavia.

[Xant]

Your face is not part of Scandinavia.

[Miwiw]

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I do not plan to leave Europe but as I study Geography I guess I'll have to soon..

[IR_Kuoin]

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[Joseph Porta]

You mean you were born on one and never left it ?

You sir, are on to me.