I was told Alaska is a small island floating off the coast of California.

On all other us maps it is, but that’s just to save space

It was a joke.

Still, I bet you didn’t know how huge it was. I didn’t either till a year or two ago actually. My mom every now and then even has told me about how when I was into the us as a topic as a kid, I used to think Texas was rhe biggest state (and had us map puzzles and stuff, some of which I still have most of the peices for),

I live in Anchorage …

This entire thing is the best real facepalm in Reddit history but thank you op for showing the true size of these states and thank you Jimmies for making this funny

This conversation was pure gold.

Upvotes all around

Los Anchorage. Lol we all know that’s not in Alaska

The crappy strip malls and used car lots are just as much “Alaska” as the Chugach Mountains.

Double facepalm for OP, this is comedy gold

No that's Cyprus

[here is another version](https://www.freeworldmaps.net/northamerica/united-states/us-geography-map.jpg)

This one is the true, without the Mercator enlargement of Alaska

Rip the rest of the Americas. I say we let Florida go to the void next.

Whaddaya mean?

He means we need to move Florida outside the environment so it doesn’t contaminate it

So like, into another environment?

No no no, it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment

Alaska should be tilted right if the continental border with Canada is curved that much.

Good point, my bad

Have we heard of projections? This is insulting to cartographers

... this is not a good map

True, but it’s not bad either

This is a map

map men map men map men

Insulting to cartographers everywhere. Along the lines of flat earth

I feel like this should be in r/antimeme

Or r/mapgore

oh no. r/mapporncirclejerk noooo

Nooooooo

i appreciate your effort but well this is badly edit and also inaccurate (which is kinda ironic because it supposes to be "displayed properly")

Is this in Mercator projection?

This is where we need to start people.. projections are important

Hawaii is not that far south.

It was a guess. But I j ew it was pretty far south though, so I put it there

Thank you for this map, most maps of the US display Hawaii and Alaska in the corner and not to scale. You should also add American territories like Samoa and other islands.

By mass is Alaska bigger than Texas? I never knew that.

If you cut Alaska in half then Texas would be the third largest state behind both halves of Alaska lol.

Idk, but probly. But most of that would probly be ice and snow. But Texas might weigh more if you count the vastly larger and more numerous towns thete with the big buildings and whatnot, but idk.

I ... no. You've just scaled up a low res Alaska and put it slightly too far west and north.

I said “in their approximately right positions”,. I never claimed this was nesesairly an accurate map. But I did try to make it close to the right spot at least. Sorry if it’s off a little.

Wrong on so many levels.. look up what cartography and geomatics is please

This is really beautiful in a way.

What's an approximately correct position?

Where I know it roughly goes relative to the mainland us, taking into account Canada, but not actually using Canada as a refrence (which I should of I know. Sorry)

Think Russia is still salty bout us ripping them off when we realized the place is rich in oil

solid 3rd grade attempt

Approximately correct?

In matter of size, this is wrong. The Mercator projection makes Alaska double its size

r/mapporncirclejerk is gonna be left with nothing to post if this sub already has absolute dumpster dive posts like this

s/noshit

isnot that supposed to be an r before that slash? this is Reddit not seddit xD edit: “seddit” could be a good name for a social media platform, like ‘said it’ instead of ‘read it’ “

U know key west is the southernmost point of the us

Also, Maine is the closest US state to Africa

Actually, LostInThePond says Hawaii is.

My bad ur right, sry