Maps and places · by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

The True Size Of

A free browser map where you drag country, state and region outlines across a Mercator map to see their real size at any latitude, with area and population shown.

Sliding Greenland down to Africa shows at once how badly standard web maps distort the size of places near the poles.

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Open thetruesize.com ↗ agent.md

For your project

Official API: API unclear
Data download: Not stated
License: unclear (no terms page found) the interactive web tool
Commercial use: Commercial use unclear
Credit: Not stated
Embedding: Embedding unclear
Using the website: Free
“Works entirely in the browser — no account or download required” thetruesize.com/llms.txt

Read on The True Size Of's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms. Check the license page before you ship.

For your agent

No official API. An agent should not scrape the site: use it by hand.

There is no documented API or data download; link users to the tool (it has localized versions like /de/, /tr/) rather than scraping it.
No published license or terms: link to the site, do not copy its data or interface

llms.txt: thetruesize.com/llms.txt

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/the-true-size/agent.md before using The True Size Of.

What you can build

A lesson page on map projections that links to The True Size for hands-on comparisons
Your own equal-area comparison widget built from open boundary data (e.g. OpenStreetMap or Natural Earth), inspired by the tool

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