Singapore: old map vs new map

Both maps below show Singapore highlighted. At 1° Mercator inflates Singapore by only about 0.06%, so the two maps largely agree on it. Watch what the old map does to Cambodia beside it. That contrast is why the new world map matters.

At 1°, Singapore sits in the band the old map drew almost honestly. It is one of the regions Mercator quietly under-represented, and that is exactly what the new Equal Earth map restores.

Singapore: key figures

	True area	On the old Mercator map	Distortion vs truth
Singapore	745 km²	745 km²	1.00×
Greenland	2,166,086 km²	25,576,494 km²	11.8×
Africa	30,370,000 km²	n/a	n/a

Old maps drew Singapore at about 745 km². The truth is 745 km², a difference of 0.06% that school atlases carried for centuries.

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