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Maps of the world are 'completely misleading' as true size of countries shown
The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...
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Do Maps Misrepresent the Real Size of Developing Nations?
Maps have often misrepresented the real size of developing countries ... but there are still issues. The fact that the Earth is spherical makes depictions of countries on maps complicated. The ...