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Re:The True Size of Countries by Benjammer on Thursday January 05, 2017 @05:37PM (#13332095)
It's a combination of map projections and airplanes using "great circles"[1] to navigate shortest distance between two points on a sphere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_circle

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