The issue here is TopoJSON’s default quantization behavior; you need to increase the quantization precision if you want to preserve detail when zoomed in. Try -q 1e5
to increase the quantization factor from the default by 10, or -q 1e6
by 100.
The appropriate value of Q depends on the maximum effective size of your map and limited by the original precision of the geometry. Your map appears to have 11 zoom levels by powers of 2, so starting with the smallest size of 560×410 at zoom level 0, the effective size of the map at zoom level 10 is 573,440×419,840. If you want to maintain this precision, you will need Q = 1e6 (and a significantly larger TopoJSON file).
More details: the quantization factor Q determines the maximum number of differentiable points and defaults to 10,000. For best efficiency, Q should be a factor of 10 because digits are base-10 encoded in JSON. The default value is appropriate for displaying a map on a computer screen which typically has at most a resolution of 2,560×1,440 pixels, well under 10,000×10,000. (Q is an upper bound on differentiability; if points are not uniformly spaced, you may get fewer differentiable points.)
TopoJSON uses quantization to determine whether two points are coincident for the purpose of simplification. This is required because GeoJSON does not encode topology, and exact matches would be overly strict due to floating point error in GeoJSON coordinates. Also, quantization is a major factor in reducing the size of the TopoJSON encoding, especially in conjunction with the delta encoding.
Slightly related, here is an example of the Asia Lambert Conic Conformal projection used for Russia.
Best Answer
Leaflet's GeoJSON uses by default a smoothing factor which eliminates less important points. Pass {smoothFactor: 0} to L.geoJson as an option to achieve a more appropriate overlap.