{"id":499,"date":"2022-11-10T13:02:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T13:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/free-map.org\/maps\/?p=499"},"modified":"2022-11-10T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T13:07:25","slug":"the-real-size-of-the-8-largest-countries-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/blog\/the-real-size-of-the-8-largest-countries-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The real size of the 8 largest countries on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Russia, China, India, Canada, USA, Australia, Brazil, Argentina &#8230; How big these countries really are? This map will tell the truth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The popular Mercator projection distorts the relative size of landmasses, exaggerating the size of land near the poles as compared to areas near the equator. If we move countries near the equator, we see their real size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia, China, India, Canada, USA, Australia, Brazil, Argentina &#8230; How big these countries really are? This map will tell the truth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}