http://www.newsweek.com/true-scale-countries-russia-africa-tiktok-video-mercator-projection-1687697

A video showing the true size of Russia compared to Africa has gone viral on TikTok as social media users learn about the misrepresentation of scale on many world maps.

First posted in late February, the video had gained around 8.5 million views as of March 14 with just under 400,000 likes.