Except, this is the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of objects as latitude increases from the Equator[1], rendering the whole website pretty much useless.
Consider using something like the Gall–Peters projection[2]. It is interesting to compare continents at their true size.
That's what I thought at first but if you search for a country then drag it around, it will change its size as you get closer to or further away from the equator so it takes the distortion into account. So maybe pointing out the distortion in the Mercator projection is part of the point?
Yeah, I took that as the whole point. You can overlay one country on another to see how they relate despite being at wildly varying latitudes on this projection. E.g pull Greenland down to India.
The country overlays change size as you move them north/south. Showing how the Mercator projection affects your perspective on country size is the whole point here.
The downvotes are likely because parent is giving the impression that they couldn't be bothered to spend 3 seconds finding out what's going on before commenting about it.
The point is that comparing shapes of different sizes still overly exaggerates the scale of the bigger one here. It does not allow for any kind of "true size" comparison.