30 Countries Compared To The United States With A Real Scale Perspective

Maps are deceiving. You see, the surface of a sphere cannot be represented as a plane without some form of distortion.

Since the 1500s, scientists have been developing algorithms that would help transform the globe into something flat, and to do this, they use a method called map projection.

There is no right or wrong way to do it, and everything depends on the map's purpose. But while every type of map preserves one thing, it messes up the other.

Area, shape, direction, bearing, distance, and scale of the landmasses are the main properties map makers are constantly juggling. Most people usually look at the Mercator projection.

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