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It has long been known that many of the most popular maps of the globe are wrong. However, a new graphicshows exactly how wrong the commonly used Mercator map is. It reveals the huge imbalances in ...

Try to wrap a football in aluminium foil and you will discover that you have to crumple up the foil to make it fit snugly to the ball. In the same way it is impossible to represent the curved surface ...