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Re:The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection by scoot on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:57PM (#25106705)
For kids (and adults!) the LaapFrog interactive globe is superb.

Not sure how much they've retained, but when they were younger, my kids could pinpoint every country on the globe, and knew the capital of every country.

Edit: The model we had was much less sophisticated than that currently available (no screen or videos). It had, for example, fun speed games where it would name countries and you had to find them on the globe and tap them with the stylus, competing for who could find the most countries in a set time.

Re:The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection by TehShrike on Sunday November 15, 2020 @08:21PM (#25106887)
I was excited to buy one for my kids, but apparently they may not have improved since then :-( https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RJ4ZQ1SDMKLNU/
Re:The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection by scoot on Sunday November 15, 2020 @08:43PM (#25107032)
I'm guessing there's a term for products that get worse by virtue of being "enhanced".

They really should reintroduce the old model, just with updated political geography.