The Mercator projection is the map everyone is most familiar with, however, this map gives a distorted view of our world. Find out why and compare other map projections. Have fun clicking on the maps and changing the projections to see how the size of countries change and distort.

Concepts

map projections

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Additional Tags

gall-peters projection, mercator projection, miller projection, mollweide projection, stereographic projections, winkel-tripel projection, projections

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