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Metrocosm: Your World Map Is Hiding Something GraphicMetrocosm: Your World Map Is Hiding Something Graphic
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Metrocosm: Your World Map Is Hiding Something

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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.

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map projections

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

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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