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Brazil is 5 times larger than Alaska.
Brazil and Alaska may appear to be the same size on the map, but actually that is the result of the Mercator projection. The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer and cartographer. The Mercator projection is useful for ship navigation, however it causes the side effect of exaggerating areas far from the equator.