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World Maps And The Mercator Projection

Making world maps / Mercator projection lies

Many world maps, especially older ones, use the Mercator projection, which severely distorts the size of landmasses further from the equator. This often leads to misunderstandings about the true scale of continents like Greenland compared to Africa.

Topics: Mercator projection memesworld maps memesGreenland vs Africa memes

Sources

• thecartographicinstitute.com
• sites.lsa.umich.edu
• thecartographicinstitute.com

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