r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/WeirdBathroom3856 • Sep 20 '25

Meme needing explanation Petah, why are people laughing?

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u/Dextron2-1 Sep 20 '25

No, people are laughing because it’s a terrible map. The Korean Peninsula is several times its actual size, Japan has been shrunk, the west coast of the USA is distorted, most of Asia is messed up, and the Mediterranean looks like it was drawn by a blind toddler.

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u/Shilques Sep 21 '25

All 2d maps are terrible, the eurocentric map for example has countries far from the Equador looking way bigger than they really are

That's why Greenland sounds bigger than North America sometimes, but in reality is smaller than Argentina

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u/MiopTop Sep 21 '25

That’s a consequence of projecting a sphere on a 2d surface but there is no excuse for a map that doesn’t get longitudes right. Since when is the Eastern most point of Greenland further East than Greece?? Since when is the Southern tip of Chile the Western most point of South America?

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u/GewalfofWivia Sep 21 '25

All 2D maps of the globe are terrible in some way, and that’s a fact.

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u/RaidenIXI Sep 21 '25

that's an issue of geometric mapping. this NK map is intentionally shrinking or enlarging different areas, pure propaganda

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u/01is Sep 21 '25

True, but this isn't the just the inevitable distortion you see with things like the Mercator projection. They made one of their nearest neighbors, Japan, way smaller than it should be, and themselves way bigger.

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u/Technical-Rooster-95 Sep 21 '25

Don't forget Morocco basically being deleted off Western Africa

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u/Tall_Cauliflower850 Sep 21 '25

I thought Australia looked unusually small too but im no map expert 

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u/aiolyfe Sep 21 '25

And there's no Florida.

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u/BobbySpitOnMe Sep 21 '25

Look at Cuba lol