Both maps below show Tunisia highlighted. The old Mercator map (1569) inflates Tunisia about 1.5× at 34°, and the new Equal Earth map shows it at its true 163,610 km². Pan or zoom either map and the other follows, so the difference is visible at every scale.
That 1.5× inflation is why Tunisia dominated old schoolbook maps and maps of the world's great powers. Hover Tunisia on either map to highlight it on both at once, then compare it with Greenland.
Tunisia: key figures
| True area | On the old Mercator map | Distortion vs truth |
|---|
| Tunisia | 163,610 km² | 238,543 km² | 1.5× |
| Greenland | 2,166,086 km² | 25,576,494 km² | 11.8× |
| Africa | 30,370,000 km² | n/a | n/a |
Old maps drew Tunisia at about 238,543 km². The truth is 163,610 km², a difference of 46% that school atlases carried for centuries.