Bigger than the map admits

One place covers more ground than another and Mercator draws it smaller anyway. It is not a rare accident - most of the catalogue is in at least one such pair. Switch to an equal-area projection and the list vanishes entirely.

953 pairs across 175 objects, of 181 in the catalogue.

Democratic Republic of the Congo	5.91×	Norway	1.08×
Kenya	5.54×	Iceland	1.02×
Mexico	5.00×	Norway	1.07×
Saudi Arabia	4.87×	Norway	1.09×
Thailand	4.78×	Iceland	1.10×
Sudan	4.70×	Norway	1.25×
Indonesia	4.63×	Norway	1.38×
Somalia	4.54×	Iceland	1.23×
Papua New Guinea	4.35×	Iceland	1.28×
United States	4.33×	Greenland	1.38×
Cameroon	4.31×	Iceland	1.29×
China	4.30×	Greenland	1.78×
Yemen	4.27×	Iceland	1.22×
Libya	4.15×	Norway	1.22×
Sudan	4.14×	Sweden	1.04×
Iran	4.10×	Norway	1.11×
Indonesia	4.08×	Sweden	1.14×
Brazil	3.90×	Greenland	2.95×
Peru	3.88×	Finland	1.33×
Chad	3.76×	Finland	1.31×
Paraguay	3.75×	Iceland	1.27×
Angola	3.69×	Finland	1.37×
Libya	3.66×	Sweden	1.01×
Mali	3.65×	Finland	1.32×
South Africa	3.59×	Finland	1.13×
Zimbabwe	3.52×	Iceland	1.43×
Australia	3.52×	Greenland	2.74×
Niger	3.50×	Finland	1.38×
Colombia	3.41×	Finland	1.55×
Ethiopia	3.35×	Finland	1.55×
Peru	3.33×	Norway	1.87×
Guyana	3.31×	Latvia	1.00×
Suriname	3.26×	Estonia	1.13×
Chad	3.23×	Norway	1.84×
Bolivia	3.21×	Finland	1.51×
Republic of the Congo	3.18×	Iceland	1.77×
Malaysia	3.17×	Iceland	1.77×
Angola	3.17×	Norway	1.92×
Vietnam	3.15×	Iceland	1.64×
Mali	3.14×	Norway	1.85×
Mauritania	3.11×	Finland	1.50×
Ivory Coast	3.09×	Iceland	1.79×
South Africa	3.08×	Norway	1.58×
Senegal	3.07×	Latvia	1.02×
Bangladesh	3.02×	Estonia	1.02×
Niger	3.00×	Norway	1.93×
Egypt	2.95×	Finland	1.44×
Peru	2.94×	Sweden	1.55×
Italy	2.93×	Iceland	1.04×
Colombia	2.93×	Norway	2.17×
Nicaragua	2.93×	Estonia	1.20×
Oman	2.89×	Iceland	1.71×
Ethiopia	2.88×	Norway	2.16×
Cambodia	2.88×	Lithuania	1.02×
Cambodia	2.87×	Latvia	1.11×
Chad	2.85×	Sweden	1.52×
Eritrea	2.81×	Denmark	1.06×
Angola	2.79×	Sweden	1.60×
Mali	2.77×	Sweden	1.54×
Tanzania	2.76×	Finland	1.90×
Benin	2.76×	Denmark	1.13×
Bolivia	2.76×	Norway	2.12×
Philippines	2.74×	Iceland	1.98×
South Africa	2.72×	Sweden	1.31×
Cuba	2.71×	Denmark	1.02×
Eritrea	2.69×	Estonia	1.27×
Venezuela	2.69×	Finland	1.94×
Honduras	2.68×	Denmark	1.12×
Nigeria	2.68×	Finland	1.92×
Mauritania	2.67×	Norway	2.10×
Somaliland	2.65×	Lithuania	1.13×
Niger	2.65×	Sweden	1.61×
Benin	2.64×	Estonia	1.36×
Somaliland	2.64×	Latvia	1.23×
Malawi	2.62×	Denmark	1.16×
Cuba	2.59×	Estonia	1.23×
New Zealand	2.59×	Iceland	1.22×
Colombia	2.58×	Sweden	1.80×
Pakistan	2.58×	Finland	1.54×
Guatemala	2.58×	Denmark	1.15×
Honduras	2.57×	Estonia	1.34×
Burkina Faso	2.54×	Iceland	2.11×
Ethiopia	2.54×	Sweden	1.80×
Egypt	2.53×	Norway	2.02×
Gabon	2.53×	Iceland	2.23×
South Sudan	2.52×	United Kingdom	1.12×
Malawi	2.51×	Estonia	1.39×
Central African Republic	2.51×	United Kingdom	1.13×
Suriname	2.49×	Ireland	1.11×
Liberia	2.48×	Netherlands	1.07×
Guatemala	2.47×	Estonia	1.38×
Thailand	2.46×	Belarus	1.07×
Zambia	2.44×	Poland	1.03×
Namibia	2.44×	Finland	1.87×
Bolivia	2.43×	Sweden	1.76×
Chile	2.40×	Finland	1.40×
Mozambique	2.40×	Finland	2.02×
Kenya	2.38×	United Kingdom	1.20×
Botswana	2.38×	United Kingdom	1.03×
Nepal	2.38×	Lithuania	1.01×
Madagascar	2.37×	United Kingdom	1.08×
Tanzania	2.37×	Norway	2.65×
Nepal	2.37×	Latvia	1.09×
Mauritania	2.36×	Sweden	1.74×
Turkey	2.35×	Finland	1.36×
Ecuador	2.35×	Iceland	2.39×
Somalia	2.34×	Belarus	1.20×
Liberia	2.32×	Denmark	1.37×
Venezuela	2.31×	Norway	2.72×
Uganda	2.30×	Iceland	2.44×
Nigeria	2.30×	Norway	2.69×
Bangladesh	2.30×	Ireland	1.01×
Mozambique	2.29×	Germany	1.01×
Suriname	2.28×	Lithuania	1.34×
Ghana	2.28×	Iceland	2.42×
Suriname	2.28×	Latvia	1.46×
Western Sahara	2.28×	Denmark	1.17×
Cambodia	2.26×	Czech Republic	1.01×
Guinea	2.24×	Iceland	2.43×
Papua New Guinea	2.24×	Belarus	1.24×

On an equal-area projection this section is empty, for every object there is. An equal-area map draws in proportion to true area, so it cannot draw a larger thing smaller. That is a definition, not a coincidence.

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