Your school lied to you.
Sorry, it's true.
This is a Peters' Projection.
It shows all square area equal.
Not only is the earth a sphere.
Africa and Asia are about the same size.
Australia is
larger than Europe.
China is bigger than Greenland.
South America
is twice the size of Europe.
World
geography has a maritime navigation bias.
Understand the principles of why what you know is incorrect
Minutia
on map projections (you don’t really want to know)
Really general country data your
children might appreciate
Does this bother you?
Teach our children better:
Data is not information, and
information is not knowledge:
knowledge is not understanding,
and understanding is not wisdom.
– Philip Adams