Depending on how old you are, you might remember having to pull out a paper map to find your way around a place. Back then, ...

it is difficult to accurately project this on a two-dimensional map. When the world is flattened to fit on a piece of paper it is distorted. This makes some countries appear bigger than they are ...

If you can remove all the peel from an orange in one go (an impressive task in itself), try to lay it out flat like a piece of paper ... One of the most popular world map projections is known ...