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The size of Portugal compared to Spain
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mokus lemmy.blahaj.zone mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-09-29
#52 · Quote Reply
samus12345 wrote:

The Portugal she told you not to worry about
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assassinatedbyCIA lemmy.world assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
#53 · Quote Reply

The mercator projection really oversells the size of portugal. If you ordered a large pizza you鈥檒l have to eat it outside of the country.
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Pk_thunder sh.itjust.works Pk_thunder@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-02-14
#54 · Quote Reply

This might be my favorite shitpost of all time haha
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robocall lemmy.world robocall@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-28
#55 · Quote Reply
Tyrq wrote:
Portugal 馃嚨馃嚬 does get the morning light tho

Umm doesn't it get the beautiful sunsets?
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Akasazh lemmy.world Akasazh@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-24
#56 · Quote Reply
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot wrote:
Oooh, I'm a rebel just for kicks, now

You're the man
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cyan_mess lemmy.blahaj.zone cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-03-04
#57 · Quote Reply

If you think that's impressive, just look at the size of Spain compared to Spain 1000152489
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Tja programming.dev Tja@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-12-18
#58 · Quote Reply

So thats why the Portuguese description on products is always smaller than the Spanish one!

Jam贸n ^presunto^
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Cjwi lemmy.world Cjwi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#59 · Quote Reply
cyan_mess wrote:
If you think that's impressive, just look at the size of Spain compared to Spain

Man, the mercator projection really messes up the perspective, I never would have guessed!!
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TrickDacy lemmy.world TrickDacy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-27
#60 · Quote Reply
Pk_thunder wrote:
This might be my favorite shitpost of all time haha

I don't get it. The joke is "haha it's actually not a misleading projection"... ?
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Echo Dot feddit.uk echodot@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-07-26
#61 · Quote Reply
TrickDacy wrote:
I don't get it. The joke is "haha it's actually not a misleading projection"... ?

Well not exactly because it's still a misleading projection, because Spain is also incorrectly projected given how far north it is
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Echo Dot feddit.uk echodot@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-07-26
#62 · Quote Reply
assassinatedbyCIA wrote:
The mercator projection really oversells the size of portugal. If you ordered a large pizza you鈥檒l have to eat it outside of the country.

So true, it fits on my phone screen. A large pizza definitely wouldn't fit.
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Echo Dot feddit.uk echodot@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-07-26
#63 · Quote Reply
GreenCrunch wrote:
If you line it up right, the borders are exactly the same shape! What a crazy coincidence!

Get more evidence for continental drift.
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selokichtli lemmy.ml selokichtli@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2021-03-20
#64 · Quote Reply
Billegh wrote:
Red Portugal is best Portugal

Communist Portugal.
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TrickDacy lemmy.world TrickDacy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-27
#65 · Quote Reply
Echo Dot wrote:
Well not exactly because it's still a misleading projection, because Spain is also incorrectly projected given how far north it is

I meant misleading in a relative sense. In any case, this post makes no sense to me.
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owsei programming.dev owsei@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-09-16
#66 · Quote Reply
TrickDacy wrote:
I don't get it. The joke is "haha it's actually not a misleading projection"... ?

Mercator's deformation show up when you move countries north/south. Since Portugal only moved slightly East the apparent size basically didn't change. (You can even see and compare real Portugal just left of the red projection)
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TrickDacy lemmy.world TrickDacy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-27
#67 · Quote Reply
owsei wrote:
Mercator's deformation show up when you move countries north/south. Since Portugal only moved slightly East the apparent size basically didn't change. (You can even see and compare real Portugal just left of the red projection)

Right. The reason I don't get the post is that I thought everyone would know and see this ^

I feel like this post is taking a picture of a cube, calling it a cube, then I'm supposed to doubt that it's a cube. Which I wouldn't...
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merc sh.itjust.works merc@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-09
#68 · Quote Reply

This Azores erasure will not stand.
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ILikeBoobies lemmy.ca ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-08-14
#69 · Quote Reply
selokichtli wrote:
Communist Portugal.

Soon mler.
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smeenz lemmy.nz smeenz@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-07-11
#70 · Quote Reply
cyan_mess wrote:
If you think that's impressive, just look at the size of Spain compared to Spain

Wow, it covers Spain almost entirely
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Tomtits lemmy.dbzer0.com blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-03-10
#71 · Quote Reply

Has anyone played worldle?

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
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Billegh lemmy.world bhamlin@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#72 · Quote Reply
selokichtli wrote:
Communist Portugal.

Our Portugal 馃嚨馃嚬
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faythofdragons slrpnk.net faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2024-12-13
#73 · Quote Reply
TrickDacy wrote:
Right. The reason I don't get the post is that I thought everyone would know and see this ^ I feel like this post is taking a picture of a cube, calling it a cube, then I'm supposed to doubt that it's a cube. Which I wouldn't...

That's right, it goes in the square hole
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paequ2 lemmy.today paequ2@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-01-21
#74 · Quote Reply
Tja wrote:
So thats why the Portuguese description on products is always smaller than the Spanish one! Jam贸n ^presunto^

TIL: jam贸n en portugu茅s es 芦presunto禄

I would have read it as: jam贸n, presunto? supuesto? tal vez? qui茅n sabe.
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wabafee lemmy.world wabafee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#75 · (edited) Quote Reply
cyan_mess wrote:
If you think that's impressive, just look at the size of Spain compared to Spain

What are those rectangle territories on the top left?
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Tja programming.dev Tja@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-12-18
#76 · Quote Reply
paequ2 wrote:
TIL: jam贸n en portugu茅s es 芦presunto禄 I would have read it as: jam贸n, presunto? supuesto? tal vez? qui茅n sabe.

Presuntamente jam贸n, pero igual es papel reciclado.
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ExLisper lemmy.curiana.net ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
Joined: 2025-03-22
#77 · Quote Reply
wabafee wrote:
What are those rectangle territories on the top left?

I'll assume you're joking but funnily enough, there is piece of Spain in France:
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robocall lemmy.world robocall@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-28
#78 · Quote Reply
wabafee wrote:
What are those rectangle territories on the top left?

Those are just decoration
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robocall lemmy.world robocall@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-28
#79 · Quote Reply
ExLisper wrote:
I'll assume you're joking but funnily enough, there is piece of Spain in France:

That's so Spain to just leave an exclave in France
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