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The world map you know is wrong, and the Mercator projection is a huge reason why. This video breaks down map projection problems, why the world map distorts size, and how fake islands on old maps actually fooled people for years. From why the world map is wrong to how the Mercator projection distorts size, this goes into borders, direction ...
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