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Imagine you’re wrapping a globe with a flat piece of paper. There’s no way to do it perfectly without some wrinkles or stretching. The Mercator projection does a great job of preserving angles and shapes, which helps with navigation, but it makes landmasses near the poles look much larger than they actually are. For example, Greenland appears much bigger than it really is compared to countries near the equator. This is because the projection stretches the areas near the poles more than those nea

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