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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You can’t translate a sphere to a flat square easily. So to make a map it’s typical to distort the image in order to create something people can easily visualize.
Modern maps are north centric because they were developed in Europe and continued in North America (as far as where most map makers originated from) so they place more focus on the northern hemisphere than the southern. This makes southern lands disproportionately small when compared to the northern lands.
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