If you can't see the maps, click here Greenland measures just 2,166,086 square kilometers (sq km), whereas Africa spans 30,043,862 sq km. However, flat maps depict a different story.

Think about a map of the world. The image you're picturing will most likely resemble the Mercator projection—a 2D representation of the globe created in the 1500s which most maps you commonly ...

This discrepancy between the map size of a country and the real size of a country happens because we try to project our world which is shaped like a sphere (which is 3D, you know) onto a 2D map.

When you look at a map of the world, it makes sense to assume that Greenland and Africa are similar in size. But in reality, the African continent is 14 times as big as the icy northern land mass.

That's how we felt when we saw the awesome map made by Reddit user TeaDranks.The map resizes countries based on their population. It's simple: Each square represents 500,000 people.