[jp555]

South Africa is about the size of Alaska, but it doesn't look like that on most flat globe-projections.

Draw a shape around SA in Google's MyMaps, and then drag that shape up to Alaska. The shape grows about 3x bigger.

[raattgift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zm6HzN5YVI

[epimetheus]

http://mapfight.appspot.com/us.ak-vs-za/alaska-us-south-afri...