Some national parks are bigger than entire countries — but you would never guess it from a world map. The Mercator projection inflates land the further it sits from the equator, so a compact European nation gets drawn far larger than an equatorial park many times its size.
Each park here is a real footprint you can drag across the map. Drop it over Europe or North America and watch it balloon to its true scale — the same illusion that shrinks the tropics and puffs up the north, told with something other than a country.