Why are standard world maps considered to be inaccurate?

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I remember being told this in high school and being totally confused. My teacher told us that a standard map, or even a globe, is inaccurate. She explained why but I didn’t understand. Why is this?

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Imagine a strawberry. Now imagine you were in a situation where the exact distances between the seeds on its surface was of life or death importance to millions of people and you had to draw a picture of it to accurately depict those distances without using any words or numbers. And the map you drew was going to be given to someone who had never seen a strawberry before and didn’t know anything about them. How would you draw that picture?

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