Have you ever noticed that Greenland looks almost as big as Africa on some world maps? 🌍
It’s not actually that large — the difference comes from map projection. When our 3D Earth is flattened onto a 2D map, distortions in area, shape and distance are unavoidable.
In this short, understand why the Mercator projection makes regions near the poles appear much larger than they really are.
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