Both maps below show Morocco highlighted. The old Mercator map (1569) inflates Morocco about 1.3× at 30°, and the new Equal Earth map shows it at its true 446,550 km². Pan or zoom either map and the other follows, so the difference is visible at every scale.
That 1.3× inflation is why Morocco dominated old schoolbook maps and maps of the world's great powers. Hover Morocco on either map to highlight it on both at once, then compare it with Greenland.
Morocco: key figures
| True area | On the old Mercator map | Distortion vs truth |
|---|
| Morocco | 446,550 km² | 592,617 km² | 1.3× |
| Greenland | 2,166,086 km² | 25,576,494 km² | 11.8× |
| Africa | 30,370,000 km² | n/a | n/a |
Old maps drew Morocco at about 592,617 km². The truth is 446,550 km², a difference of 33% that school atlases carried for centuries.