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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All flat maps are inaccurate, there is no way to transform the surface of a sphere into two dimensions without distorting, size, shape, or relative direction. This is old news, they pointed this out to us in grade school.
Every now and then, people get political over it. Developed countries, like those in North American and Europe, tend to be in the higher latitudes the popular Mercator projection makes too large, while less developed countries tend to be more tropical and appear smaller by comparison. Some people think this perpetuates bias or is even a part of some grand conspiracy.
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