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After Seeing These +15 Maps You’ll Never Look At The World The Same
The reason why certain countries looks bigger or smaller than others is because of something called the Mercator Projection.
Putting a 3D planet on a two-dimensional map was something of a challenge for early cartographers and so a Flemish geographer and cartographer named Gerardus Mercator came up with a solution.
In 1569 he designed a…