Why every world map is wrong - Kayla Wolf

im 14. I discovered that they just dont tell us the truth

Simple solution two circles each half of the earth

Who else is watching this for school

Globes for the win.

Only TED ED would mention race in a video about maps.

Maps back then were meant to serve merely as guides to remember the travelled places.

So drawing would be faster and more practical than detailed writing, imho.

So, it's ok.
Thanks to our early explorers for getting maps started and thanks to modern technologies, we have more accurate maps today.

Thanks for sharing this video Ted-Ed
& to the narrator Kayla for her wonderful
🎵🎶🎵 voice.😊

Note: China will agree to disagree with this 1 too!

At least we know the earth isn’t flat

I recommend the website "The True Size Of"
Really puts into perspective how wrong flat maps are

When you are always looking for racism, you will always find it, even in the most accurate navigational map.

"Not you, Google Earth..."
I literally laughed at it, but does this mean Google Earth is WRONG or RIGHT?

"If there's a place you want to go, I'm the one you need to know."


-Map

My geography teacher once told us about a student she had. The student was Muslim, but when he prayed he wouldn’t face Mecca directly but slightly north of it to account for the Earth’s curvature.

Turn the globe into a cube and put the map on 6 sheets. 1clearly isn't working

Winkels projection makes greenland as the arctic.

The buckminister map is correct.

The video is outstanding and became even more compelling with all the excellent animations and enthusiastic narration. This is the video I needed to conclude the lesson on cartographic projections. 🙂

So...no accurate maps besides the globe.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

The playfull tone of her voice makes this video very fun. I think in general the monotone and straightforwardness is needed in TED-Ed. But this king of change is quite nice every once in a while and kinda makes it more engaging.

Did you just read the legend on the map only now ?

In real life Africa is 14x bigger than Greenland

At the map Africa is shorter ghan Greenland no

On the map Greenland is taller than Africa but that is wrong

This video has amazing, excellent, incredible subtitles! And I really, really appreciate that. Otherwise also a fantastically informative and entertaining video!

But the world's flat ! Hahaha ur so silly

Greenland: 860K sq mi
Africa: 11.7M sq mi
Y' all shady.

This idea led to GR

Narrator: The point wa-
Me: That's a line.

shout out littttie pony pie i was in the show

but mecator's map is not for showing true size of countries greenland has same size as africa

We do we need things flat. The globe exists and is perfect

I LOVE this narrator! ❤

A gall peters map is the correct kind of map and it look a bit weird

I like this narrator. She has fun with it. Really brings personality to the lessons

The big takeaway here is the title is wrong. A correct title might using "not 100% accurate" instead of wrong. Unless a map maker makes an error, his or her map is always "right" for it's intended purpose, but currently no map is capable of 100% accuracy. By the way, I find it ludicrous that anyone lies up at night thinking that they have some sort of advantage because they really think their continents land mass is greater than another. Not sure where that came from...

The globe map is wrong too....howcome.
So, the explainations here are not good enough.

Very informative ty!

Blame the Pope.

There is no "wrong" map projection. Cartographers choose a projection based on the purpose of the map.

Globes are incorrect too

good idea: you need a globe and thin sheets of paper. Wrap the papers around the globe. Then, draw the continents and oceans on the pieces of paper. Then, connect the pieces of paper so that the continents align. Digital mapping can make this projection look good. This is probably the most accurate projection ever.

Really nice narration

I don't see how this is a race thing, that's a stretch however i have a Peter's map hanging in my children's rooms

all map is wrong, all map is right and all map is map

Gotta love those maps that make Michigan's lower peninsula disappear!

This video is clickbait. The world maps are not "wrong" they are mathematical mappings of a spherical surface onto a flat surface. There's nothing "wrong" about it you just have to be smart enough to understand the mapping algorithm used for the particular map you're using.

I have to watch this video for homework

Dont worry ,there are millions of people in america believe earth is still flat

I remember seeing something where children from different nations drew a map of the world. In almost every case their own nation was larger than reality while others were reduced. This is entirely to be expected both from a psychological standpoint and when you consider the nature of most people's education. American students will spend far more time on American history than the history of any African or Asian nation, while Australians or Rwandans will spend far more time on their own nations than on the nations farthest from them.