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Topic	The actual sizes of the world's countries.
HylianFox 02/14/22 4:25:58 PM #2:	It's fairly well-known that the Mercator projection exaggerates the northern hemisphere EDIT: Well, it actually exaggerates both poles, but because most of the Earth's landmasses are in the northern hemisphere or near the equator (barring Antarctica) the distortion is really noticeable with NA, EU, and Russia. --- THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Do not write in this space. <cite>HylianFox posted [p:962649683] in The actual... [t:79899158]...</cite> <quote>It's fairly well-known that the Mercator projection exaggerates the northern hemisphere EDIT: Well, it actually exaggerates both poles, but because most of the Earth's landmasses are in the northern hemisphere or near the equator (barring Antarctica) the distortion is really noticeable with NA, EU, and Russia. --- THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Do not write in this space.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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