As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.

And, accordingly, how large Brazil actually is, which is not quite as distorted for its location touching the equator.

To be fair, it's still at least 25% the size of the continental US, which isn't insignificant. But that's far from being about the same size as Africa as the projection depicts, not to mention only ~20% of it is even remotely hospitable.

Its just cold up here eh

Canada's land area didn't change. It's still second only to Russia, I believe. It simply doesn't show as 4x the size of some other countries in this map version.

Yes, it’s called a globe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-area_projection

Or try looking at an actual globe. :)

Not without other tradeoffs.

There is no map projection that gets everything correct, because a 3d surface cannot be accurately projected onto a 2d surface without loss.

You can get projections that accurately show size, but not shape.
Or accurately show size and shape of landmass, but oceans get warped.
Etc. if you want accuracy you need a globe.

Interactive version

https://thetruesize.com/

We we're hit especially hard because they shrunk each island individually. Just the Canadian mainland looks the same size as the states.

On the other hand, seeing Russia shrunk like that makes me think we could be bigger!

Map projections always have inaccuracies, they make deliberate tradeoffs.

The common Mercator projection allows the long and lat lines to be straight, but it means shapes near the poles get stretched.

Some projections do a better job of accurately portraying shapes at the sacrifice of size.
Some can do shape an size of landmass, but the oceans are distorted.
Etc, all projections have compromises.

Yes, as far as I'm aware at least, to keep them the same size with the same connections the locations of the geography would be warped compared to where they should be on a globe, that's the benefit of a mercator map even though it warps the sizes.