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Originally Posted by JimmyH155
My son recently gave me a huge map of the world that is not the usual Mercator projection.  It is called the Peters projection and represents countries accurately according to their surface areas. Have you noticed on the common world maps, Greenland looks almost as big as Africa - totally distorted near the poles. On the Peters projection you can see the real difference in land area. Funny, but Africa and South America now look long and skinny, and even Australia is elongated   |
I saw an episode of the west wing when they talked about this it was very interesting