The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on maps, making them appear different to reality.

The reason the Mercator projection is distorted is because it maps the globe onto a cylinder. Areas near the poles are greatly exaggerated in size compared to areas near the equator. Mercator ...

The Mercator projection is good because it preserves ... the “Greenland problem” where landmasses further from the equator like Greenland, appear much larger than the ones that are across ...

Whether you realize it or not, you're probably pretty familiar with the Mercator projection. It's the chosen map of Google, and often displayed in classrooms around the country. But Boston public ...

On an equirectangular projection, centered on the equator, the circles of latitude are horizontal, parallel, and equally spaced. On other cylindrical and pseudocylindrical projections, the circles of ...

The Mercator projection also inflates the size of lands the further they are from the equator. Landmasses such as Greenland, Canada, Russia, and Antarctica get a bulge and appear far larger than ...

This leads to many people underestimating the size of countries towards the equator, and overestimating those of the global north.” The aforementioned Mercator projection (a cylindrical map ...