It’s more like European countries are smaller than expected.
California is only 800 miles long. The contiguous US at its longest from North to South is only 1,650. Chile is hung like a horse.
It looks like such a huge score for them, because coastline is generally more valuable than inland. I don’t know if that’s the case here though
The cold Humboldt Current runs along pretty much all of Chile. It contributes to a productive fishery, but is also why a lot of the land is desert. You win some, you lose some, I guess.
Yeah, coast is nice but I wonder if it’s nice if you only got coast.
It must make it pretty hard to design transport infrastructure for example. But I guess the country is still fairly wide so maybe it doesn’t matter much.
I hear they have pingwings there.
I believe they’re called penglings.
Pangwangs
Pengwengs
I wonder if you could study them with a robot.
I heard Long Long man was born here.
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Fun fact: Chile has a shorter coastline than Norway
You can make other cool comparisons like this by going this here: thetruesize.com
Eh. They could have used a different projection. It’s kinda silly to grab, say, Algeria, move it around, and see it grow and shrink.
that’s literally the point of the website, to show how countries change as you move them about the mercator projection (which is the standard projection we interact with)
Ok, fair point.
But who is “we”?
Pretty much everybody on this planet
Nope. Not true.
Okay thanks for the input
For comparison, California is around 800 miles long. Chile be hogging that beach front property.
What’s even more interesting is that Chile is a long ass island in Europe. TIL, definitely.
E: The more I look at the “map” the more interesting it gets…
I refused to believe this map so I checked, and lo and behold, it’s true.
That’s fascinating.
Just give Bolivia a little beach! You don’t need to be so long
Look at em. Just hogging the whole southwest coast of South America, like they were a resort developer.
Voodoo Chile.