Maps are everywhere despite being distorted representations of landmasses and water bodies.Unlike maps, globes are nearly perfect spherical models of the earth.
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Why does Russia look bigger than Africa on a map?
C G25/11/192 comments
The knowledge of the majority of people about the relative sizes of countries is probably based on maps than statistics. The Mercator projection, the most popular world map, distorts the size of the shape of landmasses near the pole. This results in Russia looking bigger than Africa.
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