Large Brittain

[pedsi]

Are there any maps of europe out there that show the REAL size of the UK????
I can't find any:confused:

[lookfar]

Hi callybhoy

Have you tried Google Earth? I've just found this one... it's interactive, is this what you were looking for?
http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=50.71866,-1.41864|3|4

[pedsi]

Hi Lookfar.. thanks for the link but thats what im on about...the UK is always shown to be much larger than it actually is, in comparison to the rest of europe......Any ideas why:confused:

[lookfar]

Does it really? I hadn't ever noticed, is it really smaller then? Hmmm wonder why they'd make it look larger... does the UK have an inferiority complex over it's size by any chance, lol!! ;)

[Ian2day]

Are you referring to maps that were used to navigate the seas? As these tend to have the northern hemisphere much larger than the rest of the world.
Are any of the maps here any good? http://www.mapquest.com/atlas/

[danielg]

Sounds like you're after a Peters map (?)-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall-Peters_projection
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=peters%20map&sourceid=mozilla-search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

[pedsi]

Thanks for the replies guys...the point im making is that anytime we see a map of europe,be it on the tv or in the press ,the uk is always depicted much larger than it really is ...for example both Spain and France are more than double the land mass of the uk but if you check out the link posted by lookfar you'll see that doesn't seem to be the case...I was wondering if this is some sort of subconcious programming

[danielg]

Yes, it was deliberate to show North America and Britain in larger proportion. Check the controversy of the Peters map which shows correct proportions (created by a German).
On the Peters map, the countries look distorted compared to how we “know” them. Introduced in 1974, it shows the true size and proportion of countries. It starred on an episode of The West Wing, shocking the character, CJ Craig. This map, prior to its appearance on that program, was virtually unknown in North America. On the Mercator Map, Greenland and Africa appear the same size.

But in reality, Africa is 14 times larger than Greenland! Because it is a more realistic representation of land-mass proportions, many faith-based, social justice organizations support the Peters Map as being fair to all peoples. This map does speak to the real size of countries. The appearance of the map brought Abramms’s company to national attention. Many well known people have commissioned or bought his maps, including former President Jimmy Carter.