Maps Give Glimpse Of How The World Really Looks

The world is not flat. You knew that — but if you believemost maps of the world, we live on a neat, flat rectangle. Greenland?Huge. South America? Average. None of that is true, of course.It's the consequence of mapping a spherical globe onto a flat plane,and it's also a classic example of the way maps can be misleading.

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